Tellings Quotes

#1. Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

Ben Barnes

#2. I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

Anita Shreve

#3. For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#4. None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way [George W.] Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. The gospels are, and were written to be, fresh tellings of the story of Jesus designed to be the charter of the community of Jesus's first followers and those who, through their witness, then and subsequently, have joined in and have learned to hear, see, and know Jesus in word and sacrament.

N. T. Wright

#6. People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There'll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

China Mieville

#7. You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

Kaye Gibbons

#8. I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

Jello Biafra

#9. Well this week's all about Seattle, so we've been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I'm doing that, our team's doing that and we'll be ready to go Sunday. That's our focus.

Bill Belichick

#10. There's a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.

Conrad Hilton

#11. Allyson Smith reminds me of a younger, prettier, funnier me. Now if you'll excuse me, the ladies from my bridge club have arrived.

Stewart Francis

#12. I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it.

Peter Jackson

#13. Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives.

Paullina Simons

#14. You need to just drop dead, okay?

Kelly Creagh

#15. The friend that you're with makes you the friend that you are!

Sunday Adelaja

#16. There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.

Gayle Forman

#17. I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

Dolly Parton

#18. If you don't make life fun, then that is no life at all.

J.p. McNeill