Telling Quotes
3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors
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My whole life, I've been telling jokes.
— Brad Garrett
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There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all…
— Thomas Berry
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I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more…
— Shepard Smith
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends…
— David Abram
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Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!
— Esther Hicks
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I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president…
— John Dean
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I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.
— Terry Goodkind
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Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.
— Wes Fesler
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Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated…
— Tony Robbins
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You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I remember one day I was at Grandpa's farm and I asked him about sex. He sort of smiled and said, "Maybe instead of telling…
— Jack Handey
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I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, "Be sure, before…
— Jack Handey
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You can kidnap me and force me to be your watchdog if you want to. But I'm telling you, I will bark at any sound…
— Jack Handey
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I'm telling you, just attach a big parachute TO THE PLANE ITSELF! Is anyone listening to me?!
— Jack Handey
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One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
— Cullen Hightower
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The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner…
— Mark Twain
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Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.
— Unknown Author
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Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
— Margaret Feinberg
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You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as…
— Anna Kournikova
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When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me…
— Goran Ivanisevic
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We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the winning touchdown pass…
— Don Panoz
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There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.
— Felicity Kendal
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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five…
— Wayne Dyer
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Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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