Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
Michael Shermer
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DEAN KOONTZ For seldom shall she hear a tale
So said, so tender, yet so true.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A tale in everything.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In after-dinner talk,
Across the walnuts and the wine.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which
holdeth children from play, and old men ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch
The other turns ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose light...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an' has ...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY But that's another story.
RUDYARD KIPLING Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of
yourself.
[Lat., Quid rides?]
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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
Pick o...
GEORGE HERBERT In vain would I seek to discover
Why sad and mournful am I,
My thoughts without ceasing brood ...
HEINRICH HEINE This story will never go down.
HENRY FIELDING In this spacious isle I think there is not one
But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John...
MICHAEL DRAYTON A story, in which native humour reigns,
Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enl...
WILLIAM COWPER A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without
adding any more to what has already bee...
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MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were...
MICHAEL BERGIN Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of ge...
MICHAEL POLLAN Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. ...
MICHAEL GREGER I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo...
MICHAEL BOND I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in...
MICHAEL STRAHAN Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills,...
MICHAEL MOSS I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
MICHAEL GOVE I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front li...
MICHAEL CONNELLY I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy...
MICHAEL PHELPS Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
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