Telling Quotes

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.

I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.

Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.

Most people are telling me I look horrible.

Just because people are calling you skinny doesn't mean I'm like, 'Yay!' No! You're telling me I don't look right. This is me, this is my body - I have accepted it.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

By Googling myself, I'm not going to find anything I like.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

I'm telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.