Re Telling Quotes

I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Art is lies that tell the truth.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

It feels so good to tell the truth.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.