One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they're telling you the truth or not, there's several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.

I don't walk around looking into cameras and telling people I'm the best fighter in the world just to hear myself talk. I say it for the same reason they put warnings on packages of cigarettes, and fighting Chael Sonnen may be hazardous to one's health.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

There's always gonna be setbacks; there's always gonna be knockdowns. There's always gonna be people telling you, 'Hey, you suck!'

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.