Teller Quotes

94 quotes by 88 authors

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and… — Bill Bryson
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit. — James Caan
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. — Isabel Allende
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. — D. H. Lawrence
The nature of bad news affects the teller. — William Shakespeare
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind,… — Erskine Caldwell
Trust the tale, not the teller. — David Knopfler
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind,… — Ben Okri
To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or… — Woody Allen
Truth never hurts the teller. — Robert Browning
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel… — Richard Avedon
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong… — Chip Kidd
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than… — James Payn
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.… — Norman Rockwell
I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven… — Anthony Minghella
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear… — Gaston Bachelard
The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller. — Scott Adams
Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of… — Rush Limbaugh
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one… — Jose Saramago

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