Tell Quotes

Every shrink knows that it’s not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.

If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Telling them to stop isn’t going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.

The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.

Well, I am telling you there is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people.