I didn't plan on telling you this, it just sort of…

“Clementine settled for two words, "I'm sorry", she said. She meant I'm sorry this happened. I'm sorry I didn't see you were going through…

— Liane Moriarty

“Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.”

— Kathy Bryson

“I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just telling you what you're going to do. There's a difference.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“All the time, I was telling myself, just enjoy it for what it is, don’t be weird, don’t get all screwed up over something…

— Warren Ellis

It's not hard telling people no, but it is hard telling yourself no. -Just Saying

— Ephrem Hardin

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“the instant she made a point of telling me I was just as good as them, I saw that the whole question was open…

— Sarah Bird

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating…

— Siri Hustvedt

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

— Lois Wyse

I'd like to think people know what I stand for, which is straight-talking honesty and telling you not just what you want to hear…

— Theo Paphitis

“She wasn’t all that into guys anyhow, she kept telling herself. It’s just there were so goddamn many of them.”

— Robert Dunbar

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

— Tony Danza

“But feelings, they don't care about telling. They just go right on, piling on top of one another like a big sandwich.”

— Jerry Spinelli

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

— Jane Campion