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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. -- Arnold H. Glasow
Showing Is Better Than Telling. -- Floyd Mayweather
Telling the truth is always revolutionary -- Antonio Gramsci
Telling the truth is absolutely important. -- Jonathan Karl
Telling lies does not work in advertising. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Telling the truth can be a dirty job. -- Francesca Marciano
Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. -- Douglas Coupland
Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling. -- Brian Tracy
Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world. -- George Bernard Shaw
Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe. -- Mary Pipher
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane. -- Gary Ackerman
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -- Pietro Aretino
Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse. -- Frank Hall
On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo. -- Noel Redding
Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage. -- Wafa Sultan
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. -- Johann Lamont
A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around. -- John Betjeman
Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking. -- James Wolcott
Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot. -- Harrison Ford
Telling stories on behalf of brands is what I've done all my life. -- Lee Clow
Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult. -- John Cleese
Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion. -- Fran Lebowitz
Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly. -- Glen Duncan
Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story -- Norman Chad
Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention. -- Pat Brown
Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell. -- Criss Jami
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. -- Tom Peters
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' -- Bill Maher
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. -- James E. Faust
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. -- Vanessa Hudgens
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in. -- John Eldredge
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. -- Mark Twain
The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people. -- Pink
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? -- David Tang
People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart. -- Steve Harvey
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -- Pietro Aretino
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. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it. -- Kitty Kelley
I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic. -- Bono
Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.' -- Peter Kreeft
All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream. -- Patti LaBelle
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. -- Kate Adie
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. -- Michael Musto
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary. -- Madeleine Albright
There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker. -- Bradley Cooper
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. -- Tom Wolfe
I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you. -- Jack Ma
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. -- Eminem
Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.' -- Jada Pinkett Smith
I like telling stories. -- Hunter Parrish
some stories don't need telling -- Khaled Hosseini
Literature is about telling stories. -- Amos Oz
Stop telling women to smile. -- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Showing Is Better Than Telling. -- Floyd Mayweather
Story telling is joke telling. -- Andrew Stanton
I believe in telling the truth. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Poetry is telling something to someone. -- Marie Howe
every smart / Is eased in telling. -- Georgiana Goddard King
Trust me, I'm telling you stories. -- Jeanette Winterson
Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me. -- Mason Cooley
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling. -- Robert Breault
Any story worth telling is worth embellishing. -- Sputnik Monroe
Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating. -- Harry S. Truman
What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone. -- Dane Cook
Playing guitar is like telling the truth. -- B. B. King
The right story needs the right telling. -- John Green
Truth disappears with the telling of it. -- Lawrence Durrell
Good writing is about telling the truth. -- Anne Lamott
Stop telling the truth about my record! -- Bob Dole
Every story needs to be worth telling. -- Vera Nazarian
Are you asking me or telling me? -- Irvine Welsh
I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters. -- Tommy Lasorda
I'll be at Lambeth telling my story -- Gene Robinson
Make your life a story worth telling, -- Adam Braun
Einstein, stop telling God what to do! -- Niels Bohr
I don't mind telling a dark side. -- Clint Eastwood
So you're telling me there's a chance! -- Lloyd
My whole life, I've been telling jokes. -- Brad Garrett
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. -- Kurt Busiek
The telling of stories creates the real world. -- Alberto Manguel
I love political dramas. I love good story-telling. -- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth. -- Martha Beck
Marketing, when done well, is about story telling. -- Evan Williams
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. -- Tom Waits
The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling -- Stephen R. Donaldson
So much of science proceeds by telling stories. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth. -- Joan of Arc
I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made. -- CJ Roberts
I'm telling the same story in every film. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
telling the truth about children's lives is radical. -- Lucille Clifton
Each song, you're telling a story and acting. -- Patti Page
I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me. -- Mike Epps
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I guess some stories do not need telling. -- Khaled Hosseini
It sounds trite, but I like telling stories. -- Rebecca Hall
Most people are telling me I look horrible. -- Melanie Griffith
I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight. -- Heather Mills
Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling. -- Deborah Meier
Start telling the stories that only you can tell. -- Neil Gaiman
I'm not fighting. I just telling you what's right. -- Tatjana Maria
Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm just basically telling a story of my life. -- Jose Canseco
I don't have anybody telling me what to do. -- John Mayer
I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. -- Henry Rollins
There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. -- Lee Child
They say a story loses something with each telling. -- Cecelia Ahern
Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking. -- Fran Lebowitz
The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act. -- Sam Keen
When people were telling me 'God is watching you'... -- Pete Holmes
Love is telling someone their hair extensions are showing. -- Natasha Leggero
So much of being a woman is telling lies -- Candace Bushnell
And the leaves were telling secrets to the wind. -- Peter Mulvey
That which is worth telling is not worth having. -- Raheel Farooq
The filmmaker is not telling you what to think. -- Joe Berlinger
I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth. -- Kesha Rogers
The young are not afraid of telling the truth. -- Anne Frank

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