Teller Quotes
94 quotes by 88 authors
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
— Walter Benjamin
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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
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I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
— James Caan
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
— Isabel Allende
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
— D. H. Lawrence
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The nature of bad news affects the teller.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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Trust the tale, not the teller.
— David Knopfler
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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
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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
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Truth never hurts the teller.
— Robert Browning
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.
— Scott Adams
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Teller Quotes
88 authors contributed a total of 94 Teller Quotes, led by these top contributors: