Re Telling Quotes

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

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.

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

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.

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.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

it's always best to tell the truth.

Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.