Winter Tales Quotes

#1. I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.

Stephen Fry

#2. The world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can
the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

Frederick Buechner

#3. Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.

Jason E. Royle

#4. I'm not going down to the middle of bumblefucky for that type of coin,

Tiana Laveen

#5. In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#6. Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

Jimmy Buffett

#7. A wanton women is ripened fruit,' Constanze intoned,'begging to be plucked by the Goblin King.

S. Jae-Jones

#8. In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

William Shakespeare

#9. Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Seneca The Younger

#10. The bravest man in the universe
Is the one who has forgiven first.

Bobby Womack

#11. I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

Michael Dirda

#14. When you tell the children tales of the Baba Yaga on a cold winter's night, you might remember to mention that whether or not the witch is wicked often depends on who is telling the story.

Deborah Blake

#15. One noted software libertarian, Richard Stallman, even refused to protect his account with a password.

Kevin D. Mitnick

#16. What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

James Hansen

#17. At this dim season of the year we hunger for such tales. Winter's tales, they are. We want to huddle round them, as if around a small but cheerful fire ... It was the right thing to do on the darkest day of the year.

Margaret Atwood

#18. A world is a circumscribed portion of sky ... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

Epicurus

#19. In spite of all the dishonour,
the broken standards, the broken lives,
The broken faith in one place or another,
There was something left that was more than the tales
Of old men on winter evenings.

T. S. Eliot

#20. I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

Ricky Williams

#21. Ghana will not be built in a day. But it should be built every day and the body that houses the eyes reading this owns the hands that will ensure this.

Nana Awere Damoah

#22. In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

Cormac McCarthy

#23. A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

William Shakespeare

#24. There are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.

Chetan Bhagat

#25. I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.

Doug E. Fresh