Top 100 Just Tell Quotes
#1. My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.
Michel Ocelot
#2. If you get a sense that your writing isn't quite working, change it. Or cut it out. Don't just tell yourself it'll do, because it won't.
Michelle Paver
#3. It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.
Corazon Aquino
#4. No delays in expressing decisions. Whether its a Yes or No... Right or Wrong... Just tell that for heaven sake.
Giridhar Alwar
#5. Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.
Charles Willeford
#6. Remember, your dad loves you and he always wanted more for you than he ever wanted for himself. And if he pushes your buttons, just tell yourself that he's a master at doing that because he's the one who installed them in the first place.
Michael Palmer
#8. She'll ruin me for all women, I can just tell.
Charlie isn't the kind of woman you move on from. She draws you in with the brightness of her sun and then leaves you blind. There's something deep and dark inside of her. She's trying to keep it locked down, but I can see it in her eyes.
Corinne Michaels
#9. Someone once said to me that if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans. Just tell him who you are.
Jack Ketchum
#10. You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.
Roger Ebert
#11. I have a bad feeling about this but if you want to I'll take you to that party, just tell me where we're going.
Evelyn Smith
#12. Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
Dan Quayle
#13. They'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they? ... Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.
Richard Peck
#14. Then people ask me if I'm worried about the effects of global warming on my kids. Well, obviously I love my kids and I want them to live to be a 100. So that's another 1.8 degrees. My kids' kids? Three point six. I'll just tell them we moved to Phoenix.
Dennis Miller
#15. What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then sometimes I just tell myself, as I'm writing, "I'll fix it later." And sometimes it's true, I do.
Lorrie Moore
#16. That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.
Neal Stephenson
#17. A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.
Robert Barron
#18. I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.
Harvey S. Firestone
#19. You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
Ram Shriram
#20. Can't you just tell me now?"
"No, I need someone to eat with."
A slight smile rose to my lips. "Am I supposed
to believe that I'm your only option?"
"No. But you're my favorite option.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. I make the surprised O with my mouth, although I am not really that surprised. It was the kind of story that grownups tell children to complicate a thing when they could just tell you the thing itself, much faster.
Claire King
#22. To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.
Michael Mann
#24. I ask my father to read an article about male entitlement and emotional labor.
"Can you just tell me what it says?" he says.
Martha Grover
#25. When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to read these stupid books to our kids, and we all want to just tell our kids, "This is really bad. Don't you know that? Can't you see that?"
Cinco Paul
#26. I think we're avoiding the most important question here. What matters most. What means the most to men like us."
Conall growled at Billy Dunwich's sincere face. "I am not telling you if she swallows."
Dunwich smiled. "Just tell me if she's a good girl ... or if she's a very good girl?
Shelly Laurenston
#27. He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do.
Sylvia Day
#28. I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."
Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed.
"Why don't you just tell me who wins?" Edward said wryly.
Alice beamed. "I do. Excellent.
Stephenie Meyer
#29. I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
Samantha Hunt
#30. Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with secrets. This tight, terrific tale had me turning pages all night long.
Judy Blundell
#31. I am not your enemy, Todd Hewitt," he says one more time. "Just tell me her name and this will all stop." I
Patrick Ness
#32. Just tell me, baby."
"Do not - "
"I'm allowed to call you 'baby'
when I'm pretending to be a criminal. That's how criminals talk,
Audrey Bell
#33. I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.
Lauren Mayberry
#34. You could just tell that if Rosie couldn't romance her way to the top of the Empire State Building, she was prepared to climb it like King Kong.
Amor Towles
#35. Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them
we're Animorphs."
"Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked.
"Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said.
"Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay.
Katherine Applegate
#36. Writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never really done them. It screams out at you. That's something where I believe you have to have been there to really get it, y'know?
Irvine Welsh
#37. All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,
I just tell them to my corner, 'cause no one else would care.
That way, when I'm with you, I can keep a cheerful face,
But for the moment, I really just need some space.
Margo T. Rose
#38. You're gonna have to explain all this shit to me, Frank. You don't just tell a guy he's dead and get him to throw a stiff into the river for you and then we fuck off for donuts.
Carsten Stroud
#40. Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'
Kanye West
#41. Don't sell your story, just tell your story.
J.J. Abrams
#42. Why does everyone expect me to sugarcoat stuff? Do I look like a fucking bakery? I just tell it like it is, and she looks like shit.
Sophie Monroe
#43. Ezri, if you need to hit me, then by the gods hit me. If that's what you need, I won't fight you for a second. Not ever. Just ... tell me what you want.
Scott Lynch
#44. Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
Ricky Gervais
#45. One of my first films was Zebrahead. I remember the producer asking me, "Can you handle the big lights?" And I thought, Do I want to be sarcastic, or do I want the job? So I said, "I don't handle the big lights, I just tell big men where to put the big lights and they do it."
Maryse Alberti
#46. Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.
Nicola Formichetti
#47. You don't get that many people in your life that you can just tell anything to.
Lauren Conrad
#48. You're all I've got, Luce. I'll do anything not to lose you," he said, his scar pinching into his cheek. "Just tell me what I'm doing wrong and I'll fix it.
Nicole Williams
#49. Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.
Isabel Allende
#50. I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do. And give me some room to screw up. I've never done this before. There's a learning curve.
Sylvia Day
#51. I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
Maisie Williams
#52. I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
Paula Danziger
#53. This is the way I see it: if you get to know yourself really well, you might discover that deep down inside you're just a dirty, disgusting, and selfish piece of shit. What if my heart is all rotted out and corrupted? What about that? What am I suppose to do with that information? Just tell me that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#54. And Green held him right back, whispering quietly, "It's okay. You're going to be okay now. I've got you. I never meant to hurt you. I swear. I didn't know. I promise you I didn't. I never would've gone out with her. Why didn't you just tell me? Damn you." Ruxs
A.E. Via
#55. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
Roberto Bolano
#56. Your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty and because it's noisy, but for you it's fun and you're doing experiments ... Just tell your parents that they're experiments and you want to become a scientist, and they won't stop you from doing anything you want.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#57. If you want to call it quits, just tell me. Man up and say it to my face. Don't just skulk around.
J.M. Richards
#58. You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.
Jim Butcher
#59. Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."
Oprah Winfrey
#60. I went to New Zealand this year, and, whew man, I know a lot of people want to go there. But let me just tell you, it's 22 hours by plane. So, if you have the opportunity, don't.
Lewis Black
#61. I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.
Al Jourgensen
#62. Clem didn't seem to have whatever ability it was that let other people "just tell," and it felt as if there was an entire world of communication going on at a pitch he couldn't hear. Not
K.J. Charles
#63. We have to be avenues through which others can find and accept help. We have to be willing to reach out and show, not just tell, those suffering how they are not alone. Jeremy
Jeremy Koch
#64. Just tell him to keep his hands to himself and his python in his pants.
Evangeline Anderson
#65. Alice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."
Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"
Alice: "I do. Excellent.
Stephenie Meyer
#66. How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.
Anne Rice
#67. Fine," he said. "Murph, you wanna talk science, don't just tell me you're scared of some ghost. Record the facts, analyze - present your conclusions.
Greg Keyes
#68. You don't need passwords, you don't want to check phones. Sometimes you only want the other person to just tell you the truth!
Manasa Rao
#69. As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
Alex Chiu
#70. I can't just tell the guys I want the ball, I have to do it with my body language.
LaMarcus Aldridge
#71. We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
Tennessee Williams
#72. Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike."
"What?"
"He'll understand.
Sarah Dessen
#73. Just tell me you're mine, I'm yours, and you won't kiss, fuck or otherwise let any other man batter dip his corn dog with you.
C.M. Stunich
#74. I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.
Stephen Chbosky
#75. I love the shit out of you. So calm down and just tell me what you need. -Simon
Alice Clayton
#76. I wanted to scream, "Just tell us already!" But of course I didn't. I remained still in the backseat, barely breathing.
Rebecca Donovan
#77. Animal Man: 'Listen, just tell me one thing: am I REAL or what?'
Grant Morrison: 'Of COURSE you're real! We wouldn't be here talking if you weren't real.
'You existed long before I wrote about you and, if you're lucky, you'll still be young when I'm old or dead.
'You're more real than I am.
Grant Morrison
#78. Hey, maybe we can even convince her to slather some Three Musketeers on her vagina. We'll just tell her you have a Willy Wonka fetish,
Tara Sivec
#79. We scientists are clever - too clever - are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!
Richard P. Feynman
#80. He says he can't see why I didn't "just" tell the truth. but the truth is denser than he can imagine, yet it's more delicate than my body; it's more complicated than any love that ever passed between the two of us.
Tayari Jones
#81. I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
Bobby Fischer
#82. Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
Randy Pausch
#83. You don't just tell horses, you know. They got minds o' their own, like anybody else.
Anne Perry
#84. I'll wait for you, Luce, until you're ready. Just tell me now, so I don't sit around getting my hopes up ... do you think that maybe someday you'll want me, too?
Jay McLean
#85. Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff ... Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.
Robert Penn Warren
#86. My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out.
Sarah Shahi
#87. As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'
Michael Schur
#88. If you hit a bad shot, just tell yourself it is great to be alive, relaxing and walking around on a beautiful golf course. The next shot will be better.
Al Geiberger
#89. People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.
Vince Staples
#90. Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.
Viola Davis
#91. Sometimes I want to just say fuck the games and just tell her ass to come home so we can work things out, but she needs to grow and mature more before I can do that.
Mz. Toni
#92. You certainly do heal fast. But you'll still have some impressive bruises, so if I were you I'd avoid your father for the rest of the night."
"I'll just tell him you abuse me," Helen said with a shrug. She jumped off the examining table.
"And I'll tell him you like it," he teased back.
Josephine Angelini
#93. He, Cromwell, says to his visitors, just tell them this, and tell them loud: to each monk, one bed: to each bed, one monk. Is that so hard for them?
Hilary Mantel
#94. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.
Bev Perdue
#95. Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here.
Dan John
#96. Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#97. As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.
Koki Hirota
#99. I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.
Ellie Goulding
#100. You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble.
Joe Hill
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