Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
I was interested in the ways we can write biography. When you're first starting to write about your own life it feels so shapeless because you don't know how to make your own story cohesive. How do I pluck a story out of the entirety of what it means to be alive. It occurred to me recently that when you're telling a story about your own life, rather than taking a chunk, you're kinda like lifting a thread from a loom.
I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.
Well, nobody's being deported - nobody - practically. And so what the people down there getting is the American government is telling us that you're not going to be able to stay. But, in fact, they're letting almost everybody stay. And so what they're trying to do is show that at least some people are going to get deported.
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.
I'm soooooo telling. " Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed.
So much of being a woman is telling lies
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.
When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best times. I also get really psyched surfing or running in the rain.
The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic, essentially inviting elites to interpret what the common people believe and want. In litigious modern America, that would be a judicial elite telling us how we meant to vote or should have voted.
I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.
There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough. . . The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.