Quotes and Sayings About Lying
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A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.
-- Judith Perelman Rossner -
As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.
-- Zach Condon -
Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.
-- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi -
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
-- Julien Green -
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If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.
-- Julien GreenSource : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
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Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa muttering, which is what Franny does for two-thirds of Salinger's novel.
-- K. M. SoehnleinSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.
-- Karen Walker -
the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.
-- Katharine Tynan -
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I can remember thinking, at the age of 3, that I invented the concept of lying. By a brilliant thought process, I figured that I could fib and avoid the repercussions for something I had done, because lying meant that it never happened. However, by the time I was 5, I came to hate lying and to think of it as the worst thing in the world. That's my earliest memory. Weird, but true!
-- Katt Williams -
Anyone who tells you that American seniors are not either going to have their services cut or we're going to have to pay more is...lying about it.
-- Katty Kay -
[On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal:] He reminded me of an alien.
-- Kelly LeBrock -
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
-- Kenny WernerSource : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated
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The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.
-- Kenya Hara -
Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph
-- Lewis Hine -
It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.
-- Lisa Maffia -
Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.
-- Liz Chase -
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Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever. That's a typical Chekhov story for you. Something that you're used to lying in bed worrying about at four in the morning, before you have the psychic defenses to kid yourself and tell yourself to get up and shower and go to the office.
-- Lorin SteinSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.
-- Lucy R. LippardSource : Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Lucy R. Lippard, St. Louis Art Museum (1997). “Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.
-- Mahathir MohamadSource : "Mahathir Criticises Bush, Blair". www.thestar.com.my. February 05, 2007.
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I do feel that there are things you can learn from an artist, but I think you need to be very close to that person, and to know that person fairly well, in order to acquire anything from them. I do have a teacher myself, and I have learned quite a lot from my teacher, but it's not how to make a film. It's more how to approach my life as a director, how to approach and how to lie to a producer.
-- Mamoru OshiiSource : Source: film.avclub.com
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……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.
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There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
-- Jim CliftonSource : "Gallup CEO Blasts Press's Complacency in Covering Unemployment and Underemployment" by Tom Blumer, www.newsbusters.org. February 4, 2015.