Top 179 Teller Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
A fortune-teller said my future lay in comedy.
Truth never hurt the teller.
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.
I'm not a fortune-teller.
I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
I see myself as a story teller.
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
The nature of bad news affects the teller.
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.
Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.
I am basically a story-teller.
Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.
I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.
I wanted to be a story teller so badly.
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.
I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.
I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.
I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.
Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.
I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.
I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
of an entire generation that is to come.
I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.
American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.
We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
Trust the tale, not the teller.
I'm just a story teller.
No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.
I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
The tale is often wiser than the teller.
I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.
Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
Truth never hurts the teller.
I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.
Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.