Quotes of: Tell Keyword

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you,” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say.

Master of the Senate

Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

Never Change

Don’t just stand there with your Eiffel Tower smile. Tell me you love me, and tell me in French. 

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Love can’t tell time, but you can’t tell it that, because it won’t listen. I know, because I’ve tried.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Language in Action

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.

The Lies We Tell for Love

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

Living to Tell the Tale

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.

The Summer Without Men

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

Far too many advocates rail against this or that sexual practice; few state clearly and explicitly what we are for.

Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You

Because he tells me. All the fucking time. I’m precious to him and I know it because he shows me and he tells me. It’s beautiful. It’s real. It’s right.

Own the Wind

CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but it’s not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.

The Philanderer

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

Patriots

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.

Reached

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

Trapped

If she lets us down, if she’s weird sometimes—just ignore it, and love her. Just love her.

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.

Uncle Abner The Doomdorf Mystery