Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not… — Brigid Brophy
I'm telling you that you don't have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both. — Sophia Amoruso
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense… — John Dufresne
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. — William Throsby Bridges
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so… — Tom Brown, Jr.
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth. — Curt Flood
You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you. — Estelle Parsons
Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling, — Questlove
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. — Philip Guedalla
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. — Timothy Radcliffe
I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant… — Christopher Buckley
In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists. — Roger Lowenstein
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. — Marco Tempest
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. — Chauncey Depew
For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into… — Graeme Murphy
Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you… — Paul Orfalea
Yeah, baby! I didn't get to keep the pink baby doll outfit, but I wish I did because people are always telling me I should… — Cindy Margolis
I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth. — Pam Houston
Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling. — Lucian
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he… — Helen Rowland
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she… — Elizabeth Edwards
Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is,… — Bear Grylls
When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the… — Randy Pausch
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who… — Donald Miller
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.… — Jerry Saltz

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