If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
The only thing Hulk Hogan ever knew was how to make Hulk Hogan. He couldn't tell you how to make AJ Styles or Samoa Joe. What's Hulk Hogan going to tell Samoa Joe? He doesn't know anything to even tell him; he's got zero to offer.
As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world how - what kind of underdog they are.
They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.
I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. 'How are you' is a greeting, not a question.
Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
