Quotes About Truth

I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.

Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

The first rule of hip-hop is probably keep it real. And that can mean a lot of different things, but that's certainly important in reporting and storytelling.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebration.

I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

A lawyer should have her facts straight.

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.