Top 100 Can T Tell Quotes
#1. I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.
John Lydon
#2. I hear they're all infected with chlamydia, which just goes to show that you really can't tell who's got the clam. I mean, look at a picture of a koala ... tell me you're not shocked.
Elle Lothlorien
#3. Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.
Travis Thrasher
#4. You aren't even going to tell her good-bye?" he signs.
"I can't tell her good-bye when I don't really want her to leave.
Colleen Hoover
#5. The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.
Rockne S. O'Bannon
#6. I can't tell him that I didn't see him until they told me to look.
Ally Condie
#7. You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
Shonda Rhimes
#8. I can't tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive way. When you're in the public eye, you have a decision to make - whether you are going to be an influence or not.
Steve Largent
#9. I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
Jean M. Auel
#10. My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#11. The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
Charles Duhigg
#12. I said I didn't believe in the prophecies. I don't believe they all come true. I believe we always have choices. Even Sage can't tell us what is going to happen. Only what might happen. And sometimes prophecies are just wrong.
Elly Blake
#13. Let me be clear that I'm not God so I can't tell you who is and isn't going to heaven. What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer, I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
Alan Chambers
#14. He doesn't know where he is. He thinks this is his normal life. I don't have time to ruminate about how depressing it is that my brother can't tell the different between normalcy and eternal damnation.
Cynthia Hand
#15. There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
Jim Harrison
#16. I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.
Nick Rhodes
#17. Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.
Michael Montoure
#18. My name is Abe Marcus. Ned and I are identical twins. We look exactly alike. Even Ma and Pa can't tell us apart. But we don't act alike. I am the serious twin. Maybe it's because I am two minutes older.
R.L. Stine
#19. My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.
Chuck Palahniuk
#20. Summer was over. Of course you can't tell in Los Angeles.
Ray Bradbury
#21. I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.
Howie Mandel
#22. It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can't tell you how many people have had this syndrome ... the 'Old Hag Syndrome.' Apparently, there's this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her - she'll pop up. She's out there.
George Noory
#23. Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
Edward T. Hall
#24. You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
Will Rogers
#25. Am I screaming? I hope so, but I can't tell, not until I figure out the audio.
I don't have a voice box.
Aldous Mercer
#26. Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way because of what color you are,' like, that's just holding everybody back, you know what I'm saying?
Kreayshawn
#27. You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.
Steve Harvey
#28. You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God ... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
Charles Stanley
#29. You can't tell how high a kite can fly without being willing to let all the string out.
Ken Liu
#31. I seem to know a lot about myself, but can't tell who I am.
Stefan Emunds
#32. You gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little infinity
John Green
#33. I can't tell you how many reshoots I've done from, you know, famous photographers who really love just to shoot models and failed at shooting a Patti Labelle or someone like that because Patti Labelle didn't turn them on, so you have to shoot what you care about.
Carol Friedman
#34. I can't tell you exactly, any more than I could tell you exactly what is
the experience of sex if you have never had it.
Anne Rice
#35. I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.
Jack Kevorkian
#36. A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Jay-Z
#37. For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough,' ... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.
Rebecca Mader
#38. If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Scofield
#39. I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
Dolly Parton
#40. I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
Omar Sharif
#41. You were this perfect, enchantingly beautiful girl that made the world brighter just by being in it, and you were ours. I can't tell you how sorry I am that I drove you away.
R.K. Lilley
#42. More space for their clothes. I can't tell you how many times I've had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman's closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She'll think you're brilliant." "She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn't thought of herself.
Barbara Delinsky
#43. I can't tell you the number of times people have told me if I just lost 10kg, I could go much further in my career. But I'm determined to show them - and other average-size women - it is doable and possible.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#44. Then why are we being shot at? (Syd)
'Cause the sonofabitch can't tell time. (Steele)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. You can't tell who you're going to end up with. You might spend your whole life dreaming about one type of person, only to find happiness with somebody completely different.
Kristin Walker
#47. There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside
-Hanna
Sara Shepard
#48. I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
Billy Connolly
#49. You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over.
Henry Ford
#50. You really are like him, your father."
"I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad."
"What does it matter? It's simply true.
Victoria Schwab
#51. You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.
Jim Gaffigan
#52. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.
Gail Collins
#53. There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.
Richard Hell
#54. I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.
Christian Louboutin
#55. You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it's got nothing to do with you, but you're not really like that. In your own way, you're out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can't tell by looking at you.
Haruki Murakami
#56. I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.
Jennie Finch
#57. And she doesn't understand why he doesn't want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can't tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade.
Jon McGregor
#58. I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
Karl Lagerfeld
#59. Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.
Bruce Bickford
#60. Telling one lie begets another lie that begets another lie and before you know it that lie has grandkids, great grandkids and keeps growing. It's like Lay's Potato Chips, you can't tell just one!
Sanjo Jendayi
#61. I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
Brian Setzer
#62. It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.
Tyler Hilton
#63. I can't tell you how good and bad I felt. Yes I can: I felt like a baked Alaska.
Nick Hornby
#64. Funny thing, talking to ghosts," he said. "You can't tell if you're making up their answers or if they are really talking to you.
John Green
#65. Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.
Lloyd Doggett
#66. Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
Miles Davis
#67. Good or bad? Right or wrong? That's what you're asking me? You'd be surprised how often you can't tell the difference. How often they want the same thing.
Robyn Roze
#68. I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.
Jessica Alba
#69. At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
Barnaby C. Keeney
#70. I can't tell you that, sir." The woman's voice had gone from bored-but-friendly to officious-and-stern.
Joseph Finder
#71. You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.
Beth Comstock
#72. You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.
Anna Quindlen
#73. I feel inauthentic at a party ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.
Susan Sontag
#75. I can't tell you how many times I've been with very smart, knowledgeable Homeland Security experts who are essentially tasked with saving your life who do not trust you with information. They just don't. They kind of dismiss the media and the public in one fell swoop.
Amanda Ripley
#76. There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can't trust anyone, they can't tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.
C. Kennedy
#77. You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
Danny Boyle
#78. There are some things that I can't tell anyone, except the people who aren't here anymore.
Ava Dellaira
#79. You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way.
Rob Sheffield
#80. When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.
Brian O'Driscoll
#81. The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa
#82. but I can't tell her that it doesn't matter that she's poor, because it does matter to me, but I can rectify the problem. Everything else about her is perfect.
Gisele Walko
#83. I can't tell you where I'm going ... but I can tell you where I come from.
Michelle Shocked
#84. Your brain can't tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience.
Anthony Robbins
#85. You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are.
Laurie Frankel
#87. I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.
John Lasseter
#88. Barry Goldwater once said, 'I'd rather be right than president.' I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.
Howard Dean
#89. What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.
Tessa Dare
#91. I can't tell you how aroused it makes me when you quote codes, lieutenant.
J.D. Robb
#92. I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.
John Waters
#93. A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.
Frederick Lenz
#94. You can't tell me you haven't noticed the way things are at school. I'm everyone's favorite loser. There isn't anyone more fun to pick on then me.
Cindy C. Bennett
#95. I was thinking how you can't tell if a person's beautiful or not by her shadow ...
Shannon Hale
#96. People would say, 'You can't say negative things about the company.' But you have no credibility if you can't tell people that they need to do better.
Steve Burke
#97. In terms of everything, I'm happy and stand behind my video. If you can't tell we had a lot of fun doing it and you want to nitpick - I don't know. That's why you exist on the internet and not anywhere else.
Hoodie Allen
#98. I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.
Kirstie Alley
#99. I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
Trip Hawkins
#100. I can't tell you how terribly glad I am that you're going to be all right," George said, rather thickly. "I...I wouldn't know how to act without a twin.
Sarah Brazytis
