Top 1200 Telling Quotes & Sayings

I did make 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin the Million Dollar Champion on Raw. You know I saw the talent in Steve and I remember telling him - because a lot of people were telling him 'You need to do more' - I remember telling him, 'Don't do anything different, because what you do is believable, it's real.'

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.

When your teammates are telling you to score and telling you to shoot 3s, when you ain't shot a 3 in your whole life, that's cool. I mean, that makes you feel good. and, like, all the work you've put in, they are telling you to show what you have been working on.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

All these corporate reports say they want zero carbon. Well that is ridiculous, because you are not telling us what you are, you are telling us what you are not.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Being on stage, telling jokes and telling stories is where I feel the most at home.

I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same.

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you've got the Ebola virus and you're about to sneeze.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

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.

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

As I was telling my husb — As I was telling President Bush.

The FA have to be careful in telling you what you can and cannot say. If they are telling you that you cannot tell the truth, then they are on sticky ground.

A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.

Each of the 'Toy Story's are telling an emotional story, but they're comedic. They're so successful creatively in terms of the stories they're telling. And they're pretty grounded.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Telling a writer to relax is like telling a man to relax while being prodded for a possible hernia.

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

Telling someone you have a web series is the same thing as telling someone, 'On Monday, I start work at Chipotle.'

We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a beautiful forward movement in that direction with McQueen telling '12 Years A Slave,' with Coogler telling 'Fruitvale,' and with Daniels telling 'The Butler.'

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.