Telling Quotes

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.

If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

I have always found women difficult. I don’t really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them.

At the end of the day, you have to make sure you’re at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you.