Quotes of: Telling Keyword

It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.

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The best thing to do with a seven-year-old is wait until they’re eight to tell them to wait until they’re 18 to start living life.

$3.33

I look at a woman’s shoes, not to tell how sexy she is, but to determine how sexy she feels.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Life doesn't come with an eraser. Experiences leave their mark, for better or for worse. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never been hurt.

Armed and Dangerous

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn’t even tell him.

All-American Girl

The Music blows wherever Music pleases, you hear it’s sound, but you cannot tell where the Music comes from or where the Music is going.

The Address Of Happiness

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

All the Pretty Horses

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

Amadeus

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

The Anthologist

Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

The Hiding Place

Poor Amy. I could tell she was suffering. Poor Thing. Life was so tough for the rich, beautiful and magical.

How (Not) to Kiss a Prince

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Heretics

The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.

The House at Riverton

It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how do you tell the difference?

The Harlequin

He wanted to claim her, to possess her and be possessed, to sink into her soul until neither of them could tell their own being from the other.

Hard as a Rock

When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn’t that bad.

Hold Still

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

The Handmaid's Tale

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

The Handmaid's Tale