Telling Quotes - page 6

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. (Jean de La Bruyère)
It appears to [Nietzsche] that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... [Third] Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth. View quote
Georg Brandes
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun. View quote
Greg Bear
I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent? View quote
Henry Rollins
He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there, and he says to me in this ad, "Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service." You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat. View quote
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling. View quote
Brad Pitt
The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, "This is going to run for five years." View quote
William Hartnell
All my friends are always telling me how hard it is to have kids. 'Oh, David, it's so hard.' That's not hard. I'll tell you what hard is. Try talking your girlfriend into her third consecutive abortion. Yeah, that's hard, that takes finesse. You're just inconvenienced. (David Cross)
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone. View quote
John Muir
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. View quote
Katherine Dunn
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. View quote
George Lucas
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. View quote
William Faulkner
It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are. View quote
Miley Cyrus
When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach? View quote
Lisa Ling
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth. View quote
William Golding
I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup. View quote
Anne Brontë
When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. (Margaret Chase Smith)
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. View quote
Maxine Waters
The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
As I was telling my husb - As I was telling President Bush. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are. View quote
Ben Affleck