#tell

Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#best #best part #club #comics #different

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#bodies #body #categorically #children #emotion

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. ↗

— John Grisham

#around #compelling #death #death penalty #first

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #chewed #fun #got #i

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair. ↗

— Josh Groban

#artist #better #hair #how #influences

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. ↗

— Matt Groening

#celebration #funny #get #mad #making

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days? ↗

— Dave Grohl

#already #counting #days #done #focusing

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#cerebral #far #intelligent #really #too

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. ↗

— John Gunther

#find #first #journalism #know #out

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#autobiography #other #people #telling #telling the truth