Re Telling Quotes

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

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

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

No one individual can tell the truth.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Literature is about telling stories.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

I think it's my job to tell the truth.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.