Telling Quotes

• Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

  

  Bono U2
  • Change
  • Telling
  • Pop Music

• I'm sure we're going to be up all night telling stories.

  

  Ben Jaffe
  • Stories
  • Going
  • Telling

• Walked in class and my professor goes "when did you plan on telling us that you can fly"

  

  Cardale Jones
  • Fly
  • Class
  • Can

• There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.

  

  Paul Sparks
  • Art
  • Story
  • Interested

• Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Story
  • Changes
  • Listen

• The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

  

  George V. Higgins
  • Story
  • Characters
  • Telling

• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  

  Chris Cavanaugh
  • People
  • Stories
  • Meaning

• Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.

  

  Martin Jackson
  • Truth
  • Slavery
  • Doors

• Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.

  

  Arthur Kleinman
  • Listening
  • Stories
  • Paths

• If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

  

  Arthur M. Jolly
  • Ideas
  • Easy
  • Telling

• I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Women
  • To Do
  • I Am Not

• Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Patient
  • Companies
  • Designer

• The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling.

  

  Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Heart
  • Secrets
  • Telling

• Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.

  

  Alexandra Potter
  • Life
  • Change
  • Telling

• You can't just keep telling a story the same way over and over again. And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.

  

  Josh Trank
  • Story
  • Outside
  • Telling

• I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • People
  • Choice
  • Telling

• Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

  

  Arthur Brisbane
  • People
  • Think
  • Editorials

• If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

  

  William H. Ginsburg
  • Given
  • Would
  • Examination

• I don't see how any African-American, with any inkling of history, can say that you don't have the right to live your life how you want to live your life. No one should be telling you who you should love, no one should be telling you who you should be spending the rest of your life with. When we start talking about equality, and everybody being treated equally, I don't want to know an African-American who will say everybody doesn't deserve equality.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Life
  • History
  • Start

• A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

  

  Arthur Brisbane
  • Friend
  • Matter
  • Minute

• If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Ways

• The telling room is, in Spanish, known as 'el contador.'

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Spanish
  • Known
  • Telling

• We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

  

  Arthur Kleinman
  • Listening
  • Stories
  • Telling

• The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.

  

  George Nolfi
  • Feeling
  • Story
  • Create

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