Quotes About Telling

#1. Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

Sam Keen

#2. The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Timothy Radcliffe

#3. I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

Ferdie Pacheco

#4. Telling the truth is not easy, and false accusations can be made with great ease.

Walid Shoebat

#5. I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they're going to say 'my way of doing a film is better.' I'm not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?

Michel Gondry

#6. It's like a pint right here, an emptiness. There's nothing I can do to fill it. If you're telling me I can't have you, if you're really telling me that, I just don't know what I'll do.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#7. The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Donald Miller

#8. Why, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell their cows to be eaten, but not for raising zombies. Prejudiced bastards.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Ice Cube

#10. Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Johnny Carson

#11. Telling the truth doesn't matter to a stranger for he knows little and can judge nothing.

Lisa O'Donnell

#12. A tale can start in many ways. Thus, it is many tales, and at the same time each of these is but one way of telling the same story.

Juliet Marillier

#13. I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

Robert Munsch

#14. She's told me that even though you won't meet her tonight, she's telling you her life story through the ingredients in this meal, and although you won't shake her hand, you've shared her heart. Now please, continue eating and drinking, and thank you again.

J. Ryan Stradal

#15. The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#16. He felt himself go cold as he suddenly realized what a dangerous game he was playing. So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. If you break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.

Jeff Foxworthy

#18. My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

Mike Berenstain

#19. I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

Gunter Blobel

#20. They will keep telling you that don't hurry up! And I will keep telling you that hurry up!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Jesse Ventura

#22. If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

Vincent Van Gogh

#23. We fixed him just by telling him that he wasn't crazy, that the horrors he was seeing were real. He seemed oddly comforted by that. He was a lawyer.

David Wong

#24. The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

Kit Williams

#25. You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.

Jerry Seinfeld

#26. I thought my inner voice was telling me it was time to sell my house and get rid of everything that I had. But what I was told was to just make my load lighter.

Echo Bodine

#27. Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar ... They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.

Dustin Hoffman

#28. A lot of people sayin' f*** me. Problem is they be telling everybody but me.

Drake

#29. You're always telling me to be more assertive and speak my mind. This is what I look like when I speak my mind. I can drink what I like, I can work where I want to work, I can have sex with anyone I want to have sex with. I don't need public approval.

Anonymous

#30. My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Steven Spielberg

#31. Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

Ira Glass

#32. Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.
It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.

Toba Beta

#33. I believe being strong means I can kiss you and still fight my enemies and succeed. I can show emotion and be complicated and hope for love and family and friends in a world that is telling me I can die tomorrow.

Alicia D'Aversa

#34. When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?

Brady Quinn

#35. When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Eartha Kitt

#36. Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

Bill O'Reilly

#37. It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.

Tim Winton

#38. The funny thin is, you say it like it's so unusual that you've only done it once. But I bet a whole lot of people go through their lives without ever telling the truth, not really. And they wake up in the same body and the same life every singe morning.

David Levithan

#39. There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

#40. Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before ... without them noticing.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#41. I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

Tom Stoppard

#42. It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.

J.D. Salinger

#43. You're telling me I'm being attacked by a bunch of goddamned queers?

Brandon Shire

#44. I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly.

J.H. Wyman

#45. The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

Bill Buxton

#46. One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

Hope Solo

#47. You're a liar!"
He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#48. A lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.

Starhawk

#49. Who came up with the idea that telling the truth is easy? That's already a lie.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#50. My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Kate DiCamillo

#51. There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Alexander McCall Smith

#52. When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.

Shannon L. Alder

#53. This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

Gail Collins

#54. As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.

Lennox Morrison

#55. I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.

Richard Eyre

#56. When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

Linda Ronstadt

#57. When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

Anne Heche

#58. All day long I've been telling myself it's only a merry-go-round. Some people fall off quicker than others. No big mystery.

Dan Jenkins

#59. I'm really good at telling people 'no.'

Solange Knowles

#60. Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do.

Stormie O'martian

#61. At the same time, in death he would succeed where all others had failed, so that instead of an angel guarding the entrance to God's presence so we cannot enter in, we find an angel at the empty tomb telling us that Christ has gotten out.

Kevin DeYoung

#62. He changed me...here" He tapped his chest. "I'm not sure I can be the same person I used to be."

"I'm not asking you for that, man. I'm not asking you to forget or even forgive. I'm telling you to find a way to get around it, not over it.

Ann Simko

#63. But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was never moved by what I was doing (in an interview she said, "He writes his own material, I'm always telling him he needs a new writer") ...

Steve Martin

#64. A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Emma Donoghue

#65. Bill said, "She is mine."
I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment.
"I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.

Charlaine Harris

#66. Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Orson Scott Card

#67. I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

J.J. Abrams

#68. The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett

#69. When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

Hedi Slimane

#70. We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really hard reality in which they wake up each morning with the movement of the Spirit.

Shane Claiborne

#71. I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

Malala Yousafzai

#72. Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

Jim MacLaren

#73. Phones are only good for ordering pizza and telling someone you're running late

Amy Reed

#74. Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

Amy Poehler

#75. Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you're in a bag and you can't get out and somebody's always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#76. The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.

Matthew Pearl

#77. The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo.

Steve Erickson

#78. When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

Trisha Yearwood

#79. My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

Brittany Howard

#80. Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I'm telling you, that's one of the joys of being married to him. My life full of laughter. Thank God I have him. My life is full of laughter because of that man.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#81. I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

Barbara Corcoran

#82. I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.

George Tillman Jr.

#83. My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

Imelda Marcos

#84. When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

Christopher Moore

#85. Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn't resist the challenge.

Rick Riordan

#86. There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!

Johnny Carson

#87. I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't think it's limited to sci-fi - I think anything fantastic can co-exist with people you and I know, and not these hyper-real movie people.

Colin Trevorrow

#88. Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

Henry Jenkins

#89. The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

William Hartnell

#90. Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

Albert Schweitzer

#91. Leila dreamt that her Soul was on fire. It was not a nightmare. Shannon was in the dream. Shannon was telling her to wake up. She woke up, burning as if she had a fever, nearly soaking wet with sweat. Kevin was asleep beside her.

H. Raven Rose

#92. This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.

Scott Adams

#93. He wrote: 'We make ourselves real by telling the truth

Geoffrey Durham

#94. Must the mistakes of history be endlessly repeated? Granting PNTR to China will strengthen the hand of hard-liners, by telling the regime that America will never do anything meaningful to counter its aggression.

Don Feder

#95. I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Adele

#96. And old Padre Jose telling him to read as much as he could for the world was open only to those who could read and this skill was the most precious gift that any teacher could give.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#97. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Harry Truman

#98. If something or someone is presented to us once, we will often dismiss it as being nothing more than happenstance. If that person or situation is presented twice, it is God slapping us in the face and telling us to pay attention. It is fate.

Scott Hildreth

#99. I don't think the problem is telling people you're on a diet. The problem is eating ice cream for breakfast.

Chelsea Handler

#100. Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.

Gabrielle Dennis