Parents who always whisper the word "sex" unintentionally tell their kids, "I don't want to talk about this. Get your answers elsewhere.
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actual...
I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ...
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.
In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
Tell a lie and the truth will come to light.
Tell me and I'll forget.
To listen to a lie is harder than to tell it.
Love tells us many things that are not so.
Whoever has the sword will have the earth.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies
We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.
Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.
