Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't… — Philip Reeve
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out! — Agatha Christie
Enjoy that?' Tanith said with a little grin. Valkryie grinned back, her eyes bright. 'I keep telling Skulduggery he should get a bike.' What does… — Derek Landy
What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get… — Robert Fulghum
And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into… — Mark Haddon
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a… — Margaret Atwood
We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use… — Janet Evanovich
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. — Irving Stone
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel… — Megan McCafferty
Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?' Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.' Superheroes… — Janet Evanovich
Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.… — Anne Lamott
Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true… — James Howe
Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought… — Neil Gaiman
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of… — Francesca Lia Block
Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking… — Chinua Achebe
Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that.… — Keri Arthur
All we can do is go around telling the truth. — Carson McCullers
A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death… — Jerry Seinfeld
Well? I've had a great birthday so far. Are you going to make it the most memorable one of my life by telling me you… — Catherine Anderson
Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she… — Khaled Hosseini
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. — Parker J. Palmer
Hellooo.” I held out my arm. “An amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.” She reached out and scraped her short nails over… — Cheyenne McCray
It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so… — Gregory Maguire

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