Tellering Quotes & Sayings

I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me."
"It was your humility, wasn't it? — Derek Landy

Our men have been real Frenchmen, and their wives
I may say it
have been worthy of them. You may see all their portraits at our house in Auvergne; every one of them an "injured" beauty, but not one of them hanging her head. Not one of them had the bad taste to be jealous ... These are great traditions, and it doesn't seem to me fair that a little American bourgeoise should come in and pretend to alter them, and should hang her photograph, with her obstinate little "air penche — Henry James

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder. — Henry IV

So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word. — Robert Krulwich

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work. — Brian Greene

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. — Marya Mannes

When we say "the world has ended," it's usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. But this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. For the last time. — N.K. Jemisin

High school students die all over the country - hell, all over the world - every day, and the world keeps spinning. What does it matter? What do any of us matter? What is the point? — Matthew Quick

Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances. — William J. Clinton

My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on the move and things are happening and it's chaotic, and emotion comes from the characters and from the action, and the fall-out ultimately changes the character relationships, that exactly the kind of stuff I like writing. — Geoff Johns

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy. — Rosa Luxemburg

I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible. — Bob Arum

Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count to ten - ten of your own. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide. — Richard Branson

When sleep enters the body like smoke
and man journeys into the abyss
like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
then all quarrel ceases,
overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
of its rider. — Nelly Sachs