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Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. — C.S. Lewis

Writing is about space. It's about what's not said. About showing rather than telling. About making every word count. — Jeff Goins

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story. — Haile Gerima

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead. — John Updike

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them. — Tim Robbins

I could have spent my time hugging you or I could have spent my time telling you not to touch hot stoves or take candy from men. Which did you want? — Laurie Notaro

When you find that people are not telling you the truth
look out! — Agatha Christie

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending. — John Hawkes

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that. — Edward Weston

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden

You deny them hope ... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much. — Harper Lee

He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment. — Ravindra Shukla

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down. — Rebecca Stead

Telling the world you are trying is not doing. — Shannon L. Alder

I love you. There hasn't been a single day in the last 15 years that I haven't regretted not telling you when I had a chance. — Katherine Allred

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. — George R R Martin

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. — Ted Morgan

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so. — Sara Gruen

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do. — Shannon L. Alder

Was I a secret not worth sharing
Or
Was I a fact not worth telling? — Dawn Lanuza

I know I shouldn't let him, but it all feels so good, so exciting, that I keep telling myself I'm not doing anything all that wrong. — Jessica Warman

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. — C.S. Lewis

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. — Galileo Galilei

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there's no sense telling the story. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist. — John Sweeney

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, Not today. — Molly Ringle

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash. — Catherine Hardwicke

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am. — Paul Auster

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared.
Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked. — Tamara Faith Berger

God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big — Bob Goff

The public is never wrong. When people don't respond to what you do, they're telling you something loud and clear. You're just not listening. — 50 Cent

It's my brain. I know exactly what I have to do, but if I'm not using my brain, I'm not doing the things my coach is telling me. — Dinara Safina

My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new. — Roddy Piper

Kevin's not allowed to drive your car but Renee is?" Neil asked. "It's fun telling Kevin no," Andrew said with a wicked grin. — Nora Sakavic

The best design teams are not people who are exactly the same ... otherwise you're just sitting and telling, 'You're fabulous.' 'No, you're fabulous.' — Michael Kors

What do you know that you're not telling me?"
"I don't know what you know, so I don't know what you don't know. — Magnus Flyte

Tell the truth and not the facts. — Maya Angelou

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody. — Ricky Williams

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner. — Elbert Hubbard

You better watch out.
You better not cry.
You better not pout,
I'm telling you why,
Cause Santa Clause might put a cap in your ass. — Craig Ferguson

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. — Jonathan Maberry

I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my case — Maggie Stiefvater

You're telling someone in a wheelchair 'Walking is awesome. You should get up and walk.' It's not that easy. — Jeff Zentner

My heart's not telling me anything. It's screaming in desperation to find Laurelyn and tell her how much I love her. — Georgia Cates

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens. — Marc Maron

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this. — Nick Antosca

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. — Gloria Naylor

No point my telling you he's not worth it, I suppose ... I've seen enough men in my time. Whoever he is, he's not worth what you'll pay. — Emma Donoghue

not Rom. They're Russian. Slavs, I believe." "But she does fortune-telling. — Neil Gaiman

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. — Tom Wilkinson

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling — Bill Buxton

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. — Maggie Stiefvater

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity. — Amit Ray

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. — Catherine Of Siena

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. — Gerard Way

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it. — Richelle Mead

It was like seeing someone who wore a striped tie or parted his hair on the left - a detail, but not a telling one. — David Sedaris

Telling someone who's crying not to cry
is the same as telling someone who's falling not to fall. — Tablo

[She] did not reply. She didn't want to talk to anyone. She just wanted to listen to what her bewildered heart was telling her. — Cornelia Funke

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. — John Dewey

Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

In seventy years, Russia's Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists. — Roger Lowenstein

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard. — Margaret Millar

Someone telling you about the future did not prepare you for it. Nothing prepared you for it. — Tracy Guzeman

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do. — Terry Pratchett

God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His. — Louie Giglio

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories. — Seth Shostak

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story. — George V. Higgins

There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people. — Omar Samra

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect? — Thomas Sowell

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try. — Tom Holt

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now. — Paul O'Neill

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do. — Sky Ferreira

The young are not afraid of telling the truth. — Anne Frank

When Einstein later complained that "God does not play dice with the world," Bohr reportedly fired back, "Stop telling God what to do. — Michio Kaku

I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else. — Mark Martin

I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity. — Buju Banton

The mind never stops telling stories - not even when we're asleep. — Russ Harris

She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.
Kingsley ... I can't do this. I'm coming with you. — Melissa De La Cruz

He said not to worry. But it's there. The worry. I can't help it. It's like telling me not to have brown eyes. I have brown eyes. I'm worried. — Lisa Genova

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. — Sara Paretsky

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. — Aimee Mann

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up. — Martin Shaw

I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like. — Noor Iskandar

When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone. — Tristan Prettyman

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing. — Sarah Dessen

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. — Tate Linden

We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor. — Steven Pressfield

But telling a giraffe killer that I need someone is not an option. — Nikki Godwin

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy. — Gerald May

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it. — Woody Harrelson

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it. — Arthur L. Williams Jr.

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do. — Rush Limbaugh