1327 Telling Quotes for You to Enjoy

I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, 'Nah, no way, he's too big, it can't be true.' Then I got a call from Michael's people at my hotel telling me he was interested. But I still wasn't believing it - I thought they were setting me up for a TV practical jokes show. Heavy D

Time Me Jokes People Thought Be True First Big Setting Too Way TV Telling Record He True Hotel Like California Practical Call First Time Got Still Were Heard Up Michael Michael Jackson Jackson Wanted Interested Then Show Believing

There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.' Heber J. Grant

Time You Else Ought Telling Spirit Something Something Else Labor Oh Which Us Engage Engaged Waste Waste Of Time Need

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love. Helen Hunt

Life Work Love Truth Day You Every Day Daughter Nice Every Everything Alive Telling Thousand Minute Ten Having More Supposed Know Nominated Always Am Getting Being Want Stories Acting Keep Flow

I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.' Henry Rollins

Me People Free Young Think Broke Tell Telling Would About Rather Line Heard Than Get Young People Them Ask Paid Standard Download Now Letters Albums

I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and if there are various fractures that happen in the story, then that's just the very thing that the story is as opposed to my looking for avenues of difference in one story. They just really do exist. For me, anyway. Hilton Als

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in. Hosni Mubarak

You Mistake Will Country Whatever President Respond Telling Find Shameful Demands Accept Am Foreign Context Came Hear Nor Source Listen Might Requests Your Ever

For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think. Howard Jacobson

You Generation Book Disagree Think Assumed Dramatic Eye Telling My Generation Something Days Readers Lot Agree Novel Thing

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. Huston Smith

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken. Ian Brown

Me People Father Back Kid Telling Brother Some Borrowing Had Shared House Because Still Go Off Chicken Get Getting Move Anything Loved Mean Room Dad Mum Streets Kept

Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world. Ian Hacking

History World Mind Looking Experiment Radical Changed Changes Our Way Telling Some Followed About Insofar Had He Terms Talking Sciences Said Scientists Were Intellectual Very Tinkering Often The History Of Process Theory Incidents Many Whom Spectacular

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?' Ice Cube

Whether it be the gym or telling a guy to stop mistreating me or getting through school with a C+ average but making people think I'm much smarter... it's all about strength and how you wear it. Iliza Shlesinger

I think 'Pose' is really a groundbreaking television show because we're telling stories about family and love through people that society has always believed were incapable of having that or being a part of that. Indya Moore

I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can. Ira Glass

Great Me People Interview Interviewer Tell Kind Telling Like Great Thing Truthfully Story Interested Who Play Thing Strengths

There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon. Ira Glass

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words. Ira Glass

You Words Worth Consider Tell Telling Could Any Story

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales. Irvine Welsh

Great Family People Amazing Think Everybody Tell Telling Would Brothers Propensity Something Could Had Towards Tales Tradition Go Were His Very Oral Celtic Just Stories Storytellers Storytelling Much Dad

I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! There's this brilliant documentary called 'Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?' I think it's important for people to be educated about bees - they pollinate almost all the food we eat. They are amazing! Isabel Lucas

Love Food Animal People Queen Amazing Brilliant Important Think Guess Sun Favorite Telling Eat About Pick Almost Almost All Documentary Educated Bees Us Choose Many

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on. Isaiah Thomas

Work Me Telling Instead Hear Wanted Them Need Needed

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part. Ishaan Khatter

Day End Of The Day Telling About Part Doing End Just Stories Filmmaking

Telling Quotes

No more telling quotes