Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And… — James Lee Burke
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. — Suzanne Collins
Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times,… — Steven Pressfield
Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I'm… — Steve-O
I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say,… — Melissa Etheridge
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the… — Meister Eckhart
I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But… — Susanna Clarke
I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make… — J. Cole
I want people to follow their dreams, yes but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers I want to show… — J. Cole
I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. — David S. Goyer
I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at… — Tracy Chapman
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching. — Lascelles Abercrombie
I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so. — Sara Gruen
Are you asking me or telling me? — Irvine Welsh
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly… — Ashley Kahn
I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling… — Carson Daly
The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter — Forrest Griffin
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers. — Zach Braff
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition. — Philip Pullman
You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if… — Dylan Moran
I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody. — Adrian Rogers
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing… — Paul Harding
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to… — Robert Reich
Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling. — Jairek Robbins

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