Lying Quotes

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.

There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you're doing yourself a disservice when you say something like that, because you never know if that thing is gonna come along and be right, but I'd be lying if I said that that wasn't true.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

I don't take criticism lying down.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.