Telling Quotes

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

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

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

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

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

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

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

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

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.