My mom has a tape from when I was like 2 years old talking with my grandma telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Growing up my whole life my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world that they do have an impact.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top but a short time to get to the bottom.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

I love you and because I love you I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Man after all my grandma put into me learning the piano that was a hard day telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off but I can't help it.

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight ' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me storytelling is storytelling. But I do like writing for grown ups.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.'

You're always tellin' me to go out more Go ahead get out and see the world But then I think why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

Believe me you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling not to history.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history people would gather around whether by the fire or at a tavern and tell stories. One person would chime in then another maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.