Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think… — Stephen King
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living… — Thomas Berry
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both… — Eli Siegel
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic… — Gene Wolfe
This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts… — Paul Samuelson
So much of science proceeds by telling stories. — Stephen Jay Gould
These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these… — Tom Seaver
He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great… — Sebastian Barry
...I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote.… — Linda Ronstadt
There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase… — Heber J. Grant
It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half… — John D. MacDonald
Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the… — Michael Parenti
Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the… — Dianne Feinstein
When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story,… — Jeff Bezos
All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of… — Eugene Burger
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. — Trevor Nunn
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice… — Charles Baxter
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure… — Blaise Pascal
Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean… — Tobias Wolff
Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
If I'm using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
I never saw any good that came of telling truth. — John Dryden
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story… — Unknown Author
I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of… — Chris Ware
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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