Telling Quotes - page 10

I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. (Erin Morgenstern)
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! View quote
Gisele Bundchen
After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of. View quote
Alice Sebold
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. View quote
Jose Ramos-Horta
A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes. View quote
Zac Efron
I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life. View quote
Candace Bushnell
We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves but is a prescription for mediocrity and delusion. View quote
Kelly Cutrone
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. View quote
Langston Hughes
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves. View quote
Amanda Hocking
When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively. (America Ferrera)
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? View quote
Larry King
And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling. View quote
Lev Grossman
Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring. View quote
Linn Ullmann
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. View quote
Lauren Groff
I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it. View quote
Mike Gayle
If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act. View quote
Joyce Meyer
Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know. View quote
Joanne Harris
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. (Sid Caesar)
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. View quote
Alistair MacLeod
Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I have these surreal moments where I'm like ‘I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and ‘I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work. View quote
Sarah Gadon
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland. View quote
W. Averell Harriman