Quotes About Telling

I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator. I'm just telling people things I think are cool.

For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

No. I just spent a year on a crusade. I'm sick of lunatics telling me there's absolution and ice cream over the next hill.

I think we'd had enough of this folly. Who ever heard of a door-mat TELLING anyone anything? They simply don't do it. They are not that sort at all. Door-mats know their place.

Then I made the cardinal mistake of showing and telling him and her how I felt. That pushed them closer together.

In the telling, I found humor in my adventures. By the time I was done describing my day, we were both roaring with laughter there by the side of the pool. You had to laugh, if you wanted to survive.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Our investigation is ongoing," he said. "Do you know something you're not telling me?" "Yes." "Right. Well, at least someone knows something. That's a nice bloody change.

What are you reading now? I have little time to read when I am here, but while at home I had a feast in the reading line, I can assure you...Am not I a pendant for telling you what I have been reading? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root)

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

I've always been kind of precocious, but my journey sort of solidified when I was in college and majored in theater. That's how I knew I wanted to spend my life writing, telling, and performing stories.

I was afraid no one would laugh, and I wanted to pretend I wasn't noticing the audience. I didn't want the audience to get the idea I was telling a joke and waiting for a laugh.

The eyes are indeed a telling indicator, but the envious microexpression affects the entire face.

Have I told you about Christ? Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

You know what you did? You embraced the insanity you were telling us about. – Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

She would like to tell him some strange beautiful thing, if she could speak at all, something to make him speak. Communication would be telling something that is all new, so as to have more of the new told back.

Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.

Selling and telling are two different things. In politics, we sell ideas.

I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.