Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to… — Mark Zuckerberg
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women. — Romola Garai
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help… — Randy Pausch
Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like… — Sheridan Smith
Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying,… — Sarah Rees Brennan
The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields. — Truman Capote
Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way,… — Forrest Carter
It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you… — Bryce Courtenay
Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never… — Susan Polis Schutz
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars… — Thornton Wilder
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high… — Ali Smith
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought… — David James Duncan
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for… — Vladimir Nabokov
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them,… — Maya Angelou
Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go… — Nick Hornby
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by… — Neil Gaiman
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it!… — Dan Millman
Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling… — Tite Kubo
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper
We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills… — Naomi Wolf
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about… — Diane Setterfield
Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a… — Harper Lee
I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I… — Barry Goldwater
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she… — Roald Dahl

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