Telling Quotes

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

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

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

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

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

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.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

They are always telling us that Carolina Blue is not a color, that it is really Columbia blue or sky blue. But there is no bad blood amongst the teammates. All of our kidding is in good fun.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.