A Christian telling an atheist they’re going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they’re not getting any presents from Santa.

Get to know somebody and you really learn a lot about ‘em. Won’t be long before you start to doubt ‘em. Tell yourself you better off without ‘em. Then in time you will find can’t walk without ‘em.

I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at ‘SNL,’ I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you’re going to end up at.

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

You’re nobody to tell me what I want and what I don’t want.

That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country. And he had laughed at him at the time! That showed one must not be too sure of things

There were only a few stories worth telling, which is why they needed to be told over and over again, until everyone recognized them as his own experience.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

I’m banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do

I am convinced that one should tell one’s spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell

Each night before you go to bed my baby, whisper a little prayer for me. And tell all the stars above, this is dedicated to the one I love.

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work with the right kind of people

Everyone’s always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That’s kind of a good equation.

True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

Trees can’t tell jokes. But we can certainly tell stories. And if all you hear is the whisper of leaves, don’t worry. Most trees are introverts at heart.

I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

You never can tell with bees.

I think being a singer-songwriter… your job is to tell a story that other people can’t really tell themselves.

I don’t get controversial, I don’t get political and I don’t tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I’m alive and I’m living and I’m experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

Our scars tell a story of resilience and strength. Embrace your scars and wear them proudly.

How many psychics does it take to convince a sad little girl that she can be much more than the world is telling her she is? None. She’s got to be able to convince herself to show up for her own life.

Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.

Tell me why, why can’t we try and start again? This can’t be how our story ends

You can’t tell me I ain’t fly I know I’m super fly

She’s so beautiful and I tell her every day

I dont want to tell my dreams, I want to show them!

I think when you’re telling a story from inside of you that’s genuine, people connect with it.

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.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

The nights I don’t sleep it’s because there’s a higher calling telling me to stand guard.

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

When we grow old our God will still be the I AM, abiding evermore the same. Hoar hairs tell of our decay, but He decayeth not. When we cannot carry a burden and can hardly carry ourselves, the LORD will carry us.

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

The decisive question for man is—is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day

You can’t tell me that I can’t dress

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

I will tell you that you can use your personality and be bubbly and be yourself in any field that you’re in. That alone will take you far

It is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

I see all art as a complement to telling people’s stories. I’m in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person’s story.

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too.

The truth may vary according to the telling of it.