Tall Story Quotes

#1. This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person's life.

Leah Broadby

#2. Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. You don't need a big pen to write a tall story

Benny Bellamacina

#4. Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Because, Mr.. Katagiri, Tokyo can only be saved by a person like you. And it's for people like you that I am trying to save Tokyo.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Our battered armor and scarred countenances will render more glorious our victory above, when we are welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome the world. We

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Al was looking at me in disbelief. "Not your lover?"
"No."
"But he is Rachel candy," Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.

Kim Harrison

#8. I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

Flann O'Brien

#9. I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison

Fannie Flagg

#10. [ ... ]One pretends that manners are the formalisation of basic kindness and consideration, but a great deal of the time they're simply aesthetics dressed up as moral principles, aren't they?

Zoe Heller

#11. I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.

Robert Mankoff

#12. Dream large, stand tall, and open your mind, for you are the conduit for a story that is yet to be told.

David Powers King

#13. The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support - and yet, teachers are finding success every day.

Tucker Elliot

#14. The Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

Craig L. Rice

#15. My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book
Sleeping with Jesus
Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots
Everybody Poops (Except God)

Dave Eggers

#16. I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me. But he wrote me a letter. It led to our being engaged to be married.

Charles Dickens

#17. If you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#18. It's never about who's the fastest, strongest, toughest - it's always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.

Craig Johnson

#19. I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

Lee Unkrich

#20. The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#21. Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

Confucius

#22. Trust in God gives self-power.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.

Peter F. Drucker

#24. In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

John Corbett

#25. Anything can be a weapon in imaginative hands.

Jane Prowse