All Quotes

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.
‐‐ Dustin Johnson

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
‐‐ Joanna Scott

Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.
‐‐ Tim Griffin

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
‐‐ Gary Ackerman

Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
‐‐ Al Walser

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers' story and make it theirs, will they virally market it.
‐‐ Peter Guber

Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.
‐‐ Kathi Appelt

Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
‐‐ Victoria Aveyard

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
‐‐ Deborah Wiles

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
‐‐ Pat Brown

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
‐‐ Brian Clough

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
‐‐ Anthony Hope

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
‐‐ Anita Hill

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
‐‐ James Wolcott

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
‐‐ Kevin J. Anderson

Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
‐‐ Darren Boyd

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn

Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

Telugu-Tamil producer Thyagarajan has bought the South Indian language rights for two Hindi hit films, Vikas Behl's 'Queen' and Neeraj Pandey's 'Special 26.' He wants me to play Akshay Kumar's role in the Telugu version of 'Special 26.' Akshay and I even look similar, physique-wise.
‐‐ Ravi Teja

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

Temerity is not always successful.
‐‐ Livy

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
‐‐ James M. Barrie

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
‐‐ Francis Quarles

Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice.
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky

Temperament can really take a toll on the voice. If you get tight in your body with the acting, then you can get tight in your voice. And then you can get tired, and you can damage yourself vocally.
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
‐‐ Aristotle

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
‐‐ Frances E. Willard

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.
‐‐ Phil Robertson

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.
‐‐ Craig Bruce

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.
‐‐ Richard V. Allen

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
‐‐ Jerry Falwell

Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.
‐‐ Derek Blasberg

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
‐‐ Tom Sizemore

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
‐‐ John Owen