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Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.... -- Roy Rogers
I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television. -- Joe Zee
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women. -- Azzedine Alaia
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. -- Ruth Ozeki
It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. -- Mo Ibrahim
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school. -- Mike Birbiglia
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. -- Gloria Swanson
It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny. -- Thom Browne
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. -- Banksy
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. -- Leonard Susskind
My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom. -- Miley Cyrus
I'm self-deprecating - I spend a lot of time telling myself that things are OK, as opposed to having to tell myself to get over things. -- Courtney Barnett
My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there. -- Lady Gaga
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time. -- Aidan Gillen
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? -- Dave Grohl
I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.' -- Emmanuel Jal
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. -- John Francis
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. -- Paul McGann
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing. -- Danny Pino
Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. -- Dennis Muren
I would spend my time telling stories or writing them. -- Robert Mugabe
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling. -- Grace Paley
Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling, -- Questlove
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth. -- Sho Baraka
Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future. -- Matt Ridley
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel. -- H. L. Mencken
Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great? -- Kanye West
If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time. -- Achim Steiner
Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful. -- Jim MacLaren
I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is." -- Laurence Cossé
Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine. -- ASAP Rocky
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling. -- Chris Colfer
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong. -- Michael Pollan
I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time. -- Laurie Simmons
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this! -- Roald Dahl
Never underestimate the power of telling a teenage boy he's risking his chances of getting laid. Works almost every time. -- Violet Cross
Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity. -- Jack White
I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time. -- Charisma Carpenter
God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His. -- Louie Giglio
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth. -- Sydney Schanberg
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. -- R. K. Milholland
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art. -- Junot Diaz
Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home. -- Sergio Zyman
The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth. -- Deacon Jones
He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away. -- Steven Morrissey
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary. -- Remy de Gourmont
What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry -- Andrew Marr
I was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now. -- Rahul Dravid
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide. -- Della Reese
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it. -- Winston Churchill
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories. -- James Frey
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. -- Jodi Picoult
I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens. -- Marc Maron
This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules. -- Debbie Gibson
If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time. -- Arthur M. Jolly
I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story. -- Buchi Emecheta
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do. -- Cyndi Lauper
I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story. -- Mary Ellen Mark

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