(1140 quotes found)
“Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.”
Shel Silverstein
“Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.”
D. T. Niles
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.”
Voltaire
“My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.”
Groucho Marx
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”
Chinua Achebe
“A watched clock never tells the time”
Proverb
“In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.”
Yakov Smirnoff
“Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning”
Chris Cavanaugh
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they”
Ben Okri