“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”
Walter Benjamin
“Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”
D.H. Lawrence
“The nature of bad news infects the teller”
William Shakespeare
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.”
Charles Lamb
“They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.”
Rita Rudner
“We received a call from the BB&T in Mount Holly from one of the tellers. They recognized a female subject that was at the bank attempting to do what they call a check deposit split scam.”
Scott Wright
