(1175 quotes found)
“Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.”
Shel Silverstein
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.”
D. T. Niles
“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.”
Chinua Achebe
“My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.”
Groucho Marx
“The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.”
Voltaire
“A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.”
Ogden Nash
“Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice”
Albert Einstein
“Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning”
Chris Cavanaugh
