Don't Tell Anybody Quotes

#1. That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

Bill O'Reilly

#2. Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

#3. I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

Umberto Eco

#4. I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

Daphne Guinness

#5. You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

Todd Akin

#6. I go inside my head and become that other me, the one I don't tell anybody about.
The observer ...
I live in terror that one day I won't get to be Dani again.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. I'm an artist ... The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

Nikki Grimes

#8. I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

Igor Babailov

#10. This is the key to the entire universe. You know what this is? It's not a microphone, this right here is your voice. This physical thing just amplifies it. Don't be afraid of your voice. You have a voice without a microphone. Use it and don't let anybody snuff you out and tell you don't have one.

Hayley Williams

#11. Why is it that you don't love me?"
"Sometimes I wish I knew ... "
"Don't anybody tell him!!

Charles M. Schulz

#12. All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

Patti LaBelle

#13. When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.

Louis C.K.

#14. Because I don't think you ever tell anybody the truth. You're awake at two in the morning. You look like shit. You're exhausted. When I invite you in here, when I ask you how it's going, you think I'm going to fucking buy it that you're fine? You think that's what I want you to say?

Robin York

#15. But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybody else. If you tell this story to anybody else, something terrible will happen. Something terrible will happen to our family." And then she had a lot to do. (174)

Robert Goolrick

#16. I know what I would say now and I don't lie, so I know I what I would say then. And I certainly wouldn't tell nobody to go in and do nothing to anybody that I wouldn't want done to me.

Charles Manson

#17. I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.

Sandra Cisneros

#18. I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Phil Jones

#19. If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Satchel Paige

#20. I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Jack Nicholson

#21. So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved
and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough,
Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up,
But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough ...

Britt Nicole

#22. Everybody out there, don't ever take anybody for granted, 'cause you never know when you might lose them and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel.

Mariah Carey

#23. You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

John Lennon

#24. Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

Hillary Clinton

#25. Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

Mink Stole

#27. I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

Craig Ferguson

#28. There are many things we don't understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don't ever let anybody tell you it can't be done.

Sally Fryer Dietz

#29. I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

Brooke Shields

#30. But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.

Amy Harmon

#31. I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

Blake Shelton

#32. Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.

Hillary Clinton

#33. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; he belongs to the whole world.

Billy Graham

#34. You don't just tell horses, you know. They got minds o' their own, like anybody else.

Anne Perry

#35. Don't ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don't matter or that your voice doesn't count. Don't ever believe that you can't make a difference. You have.

Barack Obama

#36. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

J.D. Salinger

#37. I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

David Levithan

#38. I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out of your hands before you're ready to let it go. You will have time to take stuff out. You don't have to show it to anybody. That's what I did.

Melissa Febos

#39. 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

#40. Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

Thomas J. Stanley

#41. I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Kurt Vonnegut

#42. Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

Gary Johnson

#43. Some of these questions don't have finite answers, but the questions themselves are important. Don't stop asking, and don't let anybody tell you the questions aren't worth it. They are.

Madeleine L'Engle

#44. There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don't let anybody tell you any different, because everyone's special and everyone's awesome.

McKayla Maroney

#45. Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.

John Legend

#46. Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

#47. The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

#48. Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll start missing everybody.

J.D. Salinger

#49. I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

John Daly

#50. Does anybody know how to hold my heart
How to hold my heart?
'Cause I don't want to let go, let go, let go too soon
I want to tell you so before the sun goes dark
How to hold my heart
'Cause I don't want to let go, let go, let go of you

Sara Bareilles

#51. Yes you can, yes you can, yes you can...don't let anybody tell you you cant esp. you!

Jerry Gladstone

#52. Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

Kevin Smith

#53. Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.

Danielle Arbid

#54. The only place I see you headed, Grady, is where you want to go. Wherever that might be. You're in control of your life. You have it in you to achieve whatever you set your mind to. And don't let Drew or anybody else tell you different.

Jill Gregory

#55. You tell yourself to someone and they steal your soul. That's why I don't talk to anybody.

Elizabeth Flock

#56. If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

Giulio Andreotti

#57. I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

Nikki Giovanni

#58. I don't tell lies about anybody. That's why i win all my wars.

Fela Kuti

#59. What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Stephen Curry

#60. I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

Klaus Kinski

#61. There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

Haley Barbour

#62. I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

Zach Galifianakis

#63. Don't let anybody ever tell you life's fair. Not as long as I'm in it.

Stephen Graham

#64. Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

Tom T. Hall

#65. I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

Larry The Cable Guy

#66. History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.

Howard Zinn

#67. Because - and don't let anybody tell you different - novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.

Richard Russo

#68. Wake up every morning and tell yourself you're a badass bitch from hell and that no one can fuck with you and then don't let anybody fuck with you.

Unknown

#69. Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

Ben Affleck

#70. You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

Frederick Lenz

#71. Don't be afraid to be yourself and don't let anybody tell you that that's wrong. Because the best thing is you.

Willow Smith

#72. So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

Robin Quivers

#73. Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

NeNe Leakes

#74. Let me tell you something, planes and kids ... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

Steve Zahn

#75. If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.

Kirk Cameron

#76. I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage."

Henry Rollins

#77. It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.

Kimberly Elise

#78. Ask anybody doing truly creative work, and they'll tell you the truth: They don't know where the good stuff comes from. They just show up to do their thing. Every day.

Austin Kleon

#79. Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs,

Hillary Clinton

#80. Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.

Marian Wright Edelman

#81. All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

Tracy Letts

#82. Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

Clarence Thomas

#83. One doesn't want appreciation... one wants response. To tell you the truth, I don't know what I want of you, or of anybody for that matter. I want more than I get, that's all I know. I want you to step out of your skin - I want everybody to strip down, not just to the flesh, but the soul.

Henry Miller

#84. You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

Charles Barkley

#85. Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Even though he talks about Jesus as his Lord and savior, he is not a Christian. Mormonism is not Christianity. Mormonism is a cult.

Robert Jeffress

#86. I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

Zoe Saldana

#87. In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

Faith Hill

#88. Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don't wait for anybody to tell you it's okay.

Dani Shapiro

#89. I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.

Sharon Stone

#90. I don't know what I need, or even what I want, from her or from anybody. There's no way to tell her the truth, because the truth is that my heart is broken, and I don't think there's any chance of it being sewn back together. This is permanent. It can't be fixed.

Hannah Harrington

#91. You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

F Scott Fitzgerald