Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but… — E. Lockhart
Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are… — Donald Miller
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth… — Samuel R. Delany
Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. — C.S. Lewis
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. — Niccolo Machiavelli
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught… — C.S. Lewis
I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that… — Charles Bukowski
I'm telling you, it's fu**ing hard to be classy — Janet Evanovich
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded… — Albert Camus
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old… — Clarence Day
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily";… — Gregory Maguire
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the… — Bret Easton Ellis
Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one… — Nick Flynn
It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us… — Jon Katz
Poetry is telling something to someone. — Marie Howe
Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that… — Derek Walcott
Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your… — Sri Chinmoy
I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got… — Sarah Dessen
You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and… — Randy Pausch
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story… — Truman Capote
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.… — Dashiell Hammett
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. — Sloane Crosley

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