If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
Good writing is about telling the truth.
No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.
I'm already hot, you could say I'm pre-heated. If money talks, mine's telling your's to 'be seated
When my parents realized that what I liked was fashion, they gave me good advice. I remember my father telling me that I should try to do an internship. They never said, "This is a world we don't know; it might be something strange," or "That is not serious," or things like that. They always said, "Try. We'll help you. We'll send drawings to people if you want. We'll write letters for you. " What I'm very thankful for is they never made me think that something was impossible. They were really, really supportive. They are still.
Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.
I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. . . . This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. . . . If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.
I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
He has become a worm. That is what I am telling you. " "I don't suppose it would be possible," said Henry into the silence, "to, er, step on him?
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect.
And I'm telling you now the frustration The future's facing from the anger in the nation.
I'm going to continue to make short films. I love making shorts. I don't have a boss. There's no boss telling me what I can and can't do. I find that it's incredibly creative and challenging to just keep doing that.
When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
So much of being a woman is telling lies