Telling Quotes - page 5

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. (Leonard Susskind)
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. View quote
Joseph Heller
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves. View quote
Lauryn Hill
Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Tomorrow, they will say, "Donald Trump rants and raves at the press." I'm not ranting and raving. I'm just telling you. You know, you're dishonest people. But, but I'm not ranting and raving. I love this. I'm having a good time doing it. But tomorrow, the headlines are going to be, "Donald Trump rants and raves." I'm not ranting and raving. View quote
Donald Trump
One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate - disgusting behavior! View quote
Sei Shōnagon
Trust me, I'm telling you stories.... I can change the story. I am the story. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds. (Jeanette Winterson)
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. View quote
Lillian Hellman
While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together. View quote
Harriet Harman
Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom? View quote
Cassandra Clare
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. View quote
Anita Brookner
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. View quote
Emo Philips
The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: ‘Who shall be in charge of telling the story.' View quote
Ben Hecht
It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them. View quote
Edith Wharton
Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous. View quote
Simon Blackburn
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters. View quote
Roger Zelazny
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. (Fred Thompson)
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes. View quote
Mike Epps
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
When you hide another story in a story, that's the story I am telling the children. View quote
Maurice Sendak