Like Telling Quotes

64 quotes by 61 authors

• It sounds trite, but I like telling stories. — Rebecca Hall
• Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian. — Virginia E. Johnson
• I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that… — Ryan Adams
• What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the… — James Anthony Froude
• Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played… — Heath Ledger
• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each… — C.S. Lewis
• It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean… — River Phoenix
• I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut… — Roman Polanski
• I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that… — Derek Walcott
• You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. — Sloane Crosley
• Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. — J I Packer
• Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. — Dan Brown
• To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle. — Malcolm X
• The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But… — Amy Carmichael
• Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a… — Neil Gaiman
• I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought… — Masashi Kishimoto
• I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the… — Tina Fey
• Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish… — Kim Harrison
• People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who… — Stephen Fry

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61 authors contributed a total of 64 Like Telling Quotes, led by these top contributors:

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