Top 100 Can Tell Quotes
#1. A story can tell the truth...but a story can also lie. Stories can bend and twist and obfuscate. Controlling stories is power indeed. And who could benefit most from such a power?
Kelly Barnhill
#2. Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.
Billy Collins
#3. There's nothing you can tell me that will change how I feel about you. Nothing. Because that isn't you. It's never been you. You're the woman I've come to know. The woman I love.
Nicholas Sparks
#4. I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.
Jennifer Lopez
#5. So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
Tadashi Shoji
#6. I can tell you a lot of things about bullying and what it does to a person." Tears are forming in his eyes as he continues."But sadly, I can't tell you that I've done my part to make it stop.
Jeff Erno
#7. You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life. Isana
Jim Butcher
#8. Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.
Lloyd Bentsen
#9. I can tell you at once that nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering, and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set.
Bill Bryson
#10. As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year ... One is fear. The other is desire.
Deborah Harkness
#11. All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
Babe Ruth
#12. I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.'
Andy Daly
#13. You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
Bill Murray
#14. As fear approaches in the night,
Flee from the field and hide from sight.
The power stirs, the anger wakes,
The rage upon the darkness breaks,
A fearful lesson, learned full well,
A tale that they alone can tell.
Emily Rodda
#15. Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.
-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
J. Matthew Nespoli
#16. I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
Gelett Burgess
#17. Things are bad,they are,and they'll get much worse for ya soon,thats the truth.But down the road a piece,you'll be fightin' true and good.I can tell you're not a bloody sissy. -Newt
James Dashner
#18. President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.
Conan O'Brien
#19. I don't think I have any regrets, but I can tell you what I learned from mistakes or failures. I've had plenty of those. I just don't believe in regret, and my economic world is not what I would ever have imagined; I'm financially free.
Tony Robbins
#20. I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.
Diane Lane
#21. Now I can tell you something dirty.
I like men who have a foot fetish.
I absolutely think it's the most charming thing.
It's just so romantic.
Elisabeth Rohm
#22. I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere.
Tim Gunn
#23. Flirting all starts with eye contact! You can tell a girl is into you if she's across the room and still making eye contact with you.
Chandler Parsons
#24. Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Lydia M. Child
#25. You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
Evan Esar
#26. I'm not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.
Gabrielle Hamilton
#27. I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him, when he will long to hurt like that again.
Michael Knight
#28. Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
Zig Ziglar
#29. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is, that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. And, as I say, you never can tell with bees.
Anonymous
#31. Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine.
Adam Rex
#32. I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.
Marco Rubio
#33. When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
Iyanla Vanzant
#34. I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.
Mark Andrus
#35. I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.
Eric Davis
#36. I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
Kitty Kelley
#37. We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.
Rachel Held Evans
#38. From my own experience, I can tell you that there are mornings when you sit down at the typewriter and knock out three pages in forty-five minutes, and you look at yourself in the toaster over breakfast and your head's all misshapen and pointy, and you say, "Son, you were born with talent.
Pete Dexter
#39. One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
Wole Soyinka
#40. You can tell this lady to bite me,though," Darrak added. "And she can take that holier-than-thou attitude of hers and shove it right under her granny panties.
Michelle Rowen
#41. An economist is a man that can tell you ... what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
Will Rogers
#42. Homo sapiens, which as far as I can tell is only another way of saying weaponised chimpanzees who are hellbent on tearing their cage apart without realising it's not a cage, it's their fucking life support they're shredding.
Paul Russell
#43. There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.
Iyanla Vanzant
#44. What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.
Gail Sher
#45. Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur.
Liam Gallagher
#46. I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan's, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.
Brad Warner
#47. I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.
Freeman Dyson
#48. It means you're beautiful. Desirable. That I can't keep my
hands off you any more than I can tell my heart to stop beating. It means I listen for your voice when I know you're near and love it when I can smell your perfume on my clothes at the end of the day.
Tiffany Snow
#49. The annoying thing about time is that it takes time...but no amount of it is enough when you are waiting to be sure. Time alone can tell you what will last.
Mil Millington
#50. I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
David Hockney
#51. The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
Jennifer Garner
#52. If you want witnesses then I am one and I can tell you now, when you say that he redeemed the world, I will say that it was not worth it. It was not worth it.
Colm Toibin
#53. I hate this goddamn cat." "I can tell.
J.R. Ward
#54. You can tell when people are truly happy.
their energy is genuine.
Alexandra Elle
#55. Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.
Barack Obama
#56. Only those who have learnt the tongue of angels can tell how one's name will sound in the language of light.
Sjon
#58. I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
Kat Dennings
#59. Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true.
Steven D. Levitt
#60. As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.
Rush Limbaugh
#61. Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
Otis Rush
#62. Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.
Ernst Mach
#63. You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of the leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
Alfred Bester
#64. Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges." I can tell you, with all certainty, this is not true. I have accomplished things on skis no one thought were physically possible for females.
Lynsey Dyer
#65. Certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.
Marie De Gournay
#66. I'm fear less as far I can tell, but I can't go to the graveyard and sleep there. I need time to handle this!
Deyth Banger
#67. I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.
Maelle Gavet
#68. The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.
Lusia Strus
#69. We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story.
Patrick Rothfuss
#70. I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
Catullus
#71. If you can raise profits by shaving costs on your main product and 90 percent of your customers wouldn't even notice, why not just do it? Because we can tell the difference.
Howard Schultz
#72. You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.
Jeff Fitzgerald
#73. You can tell me anything, you know."
"Even a bad thing?"
"Of course, even a bad thing. And you know, when you tell someone else a bad thing, it breaks in half, so that you're only carrying a small bit of it.
Dawn Kurtagich
#74. So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica.
Robert McCloskey
#75. I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
Karen Kingsbury
#76. Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.
Michael Shannon
#77. My perfect Valentine's Day would be coming home to a giant box waiting for me, and it has a gorgeous dress and high-heeled shoes and a handbag. And someone's waiting to do my hair and makeup. You can tell I've been in too many romantic comedies.
Judy Greer
#78. No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.
Penn Jillette
#79. What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.
William Wharton
#80. Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#81. You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.
Skitch Henderson
#82. As far as I can tell, it doesn't make any difference to adults how clever children are. They always stick together. Unless you are sick or dying or mortally wounded, they will always side with the other adult.
R.L. LaFevers
#83. A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it's story.
Sebastyne Young
#84. You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.
Jacob Hashimoto
#85. Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
Clarence Darrow
#86. It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'
Xavier Dolan
#87. Everything that we think comes across in our eyes. Our eyes really are the windows to our souls, and that's why at least I can tell when somebody doesn't mean what they're saying - if you just look at them in the eye.
Jennifer Lawrence
#88. If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.
Don McLean
#89. However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.
Jahangir Khan
#90. I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.
Billy Collins
#91. A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.
Jarod Kintz
#92. I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.
Evan Osnos
#93. The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will make it so.
Ginny Baird
#94. I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.
Patti Page
#95. You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.
Charles M. Schwab
#96. At the moment, he can tell he's being watched by a stranger, however, so he picks his feet up and tosses his mane just a little more than usual. I allow him his show. There are worse flaws than vanity in a horse.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told,
Mark Twain
#98. Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.
Jonathan Tropper
#99. It seemed really easy waving your hands around, it wouldn't make any difference if you were moving it left or right, but I wanted to do it realistically. I think you can tell if someone doesn't know what they're doing.
Freddie Highmore
#100. That's how you can tell when someone has a good heart... when you want to be the one to make it beat.
Rachel Van Dyken
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