Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more… — John Paul Caponigro
The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be… — William O'Neil
Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate… — Henry Stapp
Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you. — Melissa de la Cruz
I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept… — Art Donovan
There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something. — Paul Stanley
I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was… — Blackie
Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do? — Ingrid Law
When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting… — Stephen Grosz
Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or… — Aaron McGruder
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At… — Ishmael Beah
Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don't give a damn about you.' They're telling the other party, 'You've got our vote.' Therefore,… — Stephen A. Smith
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing. — Francine Prose
Every story needs to be worth telling. — Vera Nazarian
A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems… — Cameron Dokey
Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to… — Cynthia Leitich Smith
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to… — Omar Samra
The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two… — Michael Coren
Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying.… — Lauren Barnholdt
I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices,… — Marcus Brigstocke
I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories. — Christine Vachon
So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy… — Nicole Mones
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our… — St. Jerome

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