Telling Quotes - page 2

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Einstein, stop telling God what to do! View quote
Niels Bohr
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it. View quote
Ogden Nash
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. View quote
Alfred Brendel
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be. View quote
Richard Marcinko
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. View quote
Phyllis Diller
I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. View quote
David S. Goyer
Most people are telling me I look horrible. View quote
Melanie Griffith
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. (Richard Bach)
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go. View quote
Jack White
My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people. View quote
Imelda Marcos
The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. View quote
Jane Austen
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. View quote
Helen Rowland
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? View quote
Dave Barry
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. (Mark Twain)
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. View quote
Frank Herbert
The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in his simplicity and imagines he is telling the truth. View quote
Halldór Laxness
Telling the truth is always revolutionary. View quote
Antonio Gramsci
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. View quote
Franz Kafka