Telling Quotes

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

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

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

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

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

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

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

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

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

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

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding... old.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.