Top 100 Quotes About Don't Tell
#1. I've read the articles that show up in all the women's magazines about marital ruts and turning the heat up in your marriage. They don't tell you anything real. They don't have any answers.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#2. Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week.
Jimmy Fallon
#3. OMG! Look at that! They're ALL wearing the same butt-ugly ensemble! Wait, don't tell me. They were giving them away for free with a purchase of a McDonald's Happy Meal!
Rachel Renee Russell
#4. Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries."
I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the
Lord's work and all.
James Patterson
#5. Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.
Jeremy Jackson
#6. Don't tell me
about the seasons in the East, don't talk to me
about eternal California summer.
It's enough to have
a few days naked
among three hundred kinds of rain.
Sam Hamill
#7. If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.
Markus Zusak
#8. I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
Tab Hunter
#9. It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.
But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.
Toba Beta
#10. Don't tell yourself you don't need love just because it hasn't found you yet.
Tony Gaskins
#11. 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
#12. Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.
Chris Hardwick
#13. Don't tell me you can pitch ... pitch. Don't tell me you can sell ... sell.
Joe Garagiola
#14. Don't tell your business until it becomes a testimony.
Garrett McCoy
#15. I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.
Jessa Crispin
#16. Can I have a pony?"
Oh, boy.
I think about it for exactly one second.
"Absolutely."
She squeezes me tighter and squeals.
"Only ... don't tell mommy until after it's delivered, okay?
Emma Chase
#17. My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.
Brian Greene
#18. I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
Gregory Peck
#19. We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.
Tom McCall
#20. Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.
Denis Waitley
#21. I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.
Roger Deakins
#22. The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.
Carlos Castaneda
#23. I've realized why I don't tell the truth in interviews. It's because they're printed months later, and you change so quickly - you have new thoughts, new everything - so people are reading an old version of you.
Nicholas Hoult
#24. Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.
Ayn Rand
#25. Jutta opens her eyes but doesn't look at him. 'Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me.
Anthony Doerr
#26. Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
Julie Andrews
#27. Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goalo.
David Coleman
#28. Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
Dean Koontz
#29. Be kind to the spider. It's simply working hard to be itself. And don't tell the maids,
Julie Anne Long
#30. I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
Mark Twain
#31. Don't tell me the Pigeon Whisperer dragged you into one of his stupid schemes.
Rachel Aaron
#32. So help me God, if you don't tell me where you are right this second I will shoot you myself as soon as I find your scrawny ass.
Mary Calmes
#33. I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!
Wendy Williams
#34. In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn't brought it up, and they hadn't brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don't ask, don't tell.
Kami Garcia
#36. Don't tell me your name. It's likely to awaken my conscience, and that's the last thing we want.
Julia Quinn
#37. Please don't tell her i told you. I know how much you love her, Hardy, and i know the reason she didn't want you to know is because she loves you, too. I've never seen two people your age feel so deeply about each other. I understand you needing to know, but she would never forgive me.
M. Leighton
#38. I don't tell him about how I have to leave my family organism, break out firmly and finally. I don't tell him that I'm a parasite, and I'm ruining them. That my functionality is tearing them to pieces.
Hannah Moskowitz
#39. I love you so much, Natalie, and when I get home I'm going to keep loving you until you tell me to stop. But don't, please. Don't tell me to stop. I love you. With everything.
Andrea Randall
#40. Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market.
Joseph Shellim
#41. Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
Jimmy Johnson
#42. And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#43. I don't agree. The morning fog makes the graveyard beautiful, soft and sad as a voice humming a lullaby, but I don't tell her what I think. She'd call me a weirdo.
- Raven Smith
Rita Stradling
#44. If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.
Henry Louis Gates
#45. Please don't tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.
Khadija Rupa
#46. The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil.
'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things.
Franny Billingsley
#47. Don't tell me you don't know!" I roared at him. "Tell me one fucking thing you do know!" "That I love you." His breath hitched in his chest. And I just. I couldn't breathe. Everything
T.J. Klune
#49. I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.
Libba Bray
#50. What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!
Haruki Murakami
#51. If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
Sam Kinison
#52. I don't want to make people mad. I just ... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?
Brandon Sanderson
#53. If you want to do something dangerous ... Don't tell your girlfriend!
Christopher Titus
#54. I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there.
James Ellroy
#55. One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.
Paul Theroux
#56. I don't tell my children, 'If you're not good, you're going to hell.' I tell my children that God will be there for them when they struggle. That's the God I believe in.
Marie Osmond
#57. One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.
Rick Heinrichs
#58. I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I'm challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don't tell you how to get there and I don't show you what to do, though I'll ask leading questions.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#59. A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian.
"Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry
Oscar Wilde
#60. I can't stand this, Pigeon. I feel like I'm going crazy."
I threw out my hands and let them hit my thighs. "You can't stand what?"
"If you sleep with him, I don't wanna know about it. I'll go to prison for a long time if I find out he ... just don't tell me.
Jamie McGuire
#61. Don't tell me this hurts for you too. A killer cannot sue for the bruises on his knuckles or the blood on his shoes.
Beau Taplin
#62. What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regardless of how full the glass is, it's filled with acid, and you'll burn your face off.
T.J. Klune
#63. A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.
Jennifer Brown
#64. You only live once, why be miserable? Fat people are miserable
you are carrying 50 lbs on your shoulders all day, you get a disease called "pooped-out itis". Don't tell me that they are happy with the way they look and feel. I have to be honest, that is all I have.
Jack LaLanne
#65. Saying things like that to me makes this so damn hard. I'll always be here for you. But don't tell me you need me.
Abbi Glines
#66. When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
Sharon Salzberg
#67. The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.
George Carlin
#68. My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.
Umberto Eco
#69. Don't tell me what you're going to do, show me what you've done.
Smith
#70. I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani."
"I don't tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani.
Karen Marie Moning
#71. If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
Joyce Maynard
#73. You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
Jean Cocteau
#74. He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me ... (109)
Dorothy Allison
#75. Don't tell me! You're just rubbing it in! It serves me right, though: it was vanity that kept me from coming, egoistic vanity and base despotism, which I haven't been able to get rid of all my life, though all my life I've been trying to break myself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#76. I know how you love this place, he says to me, apologetically yet with satisfaction. And I don't tell him that I am not sure now whether I love any place, and that it seems to me it was myself I loved here - some self that I have finished with, and none too soon.
Alice Munro
#77. Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh ... And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.
Dan Brown
#78. The number one thing in my opinion parents can do is be the way you would like your child to be. Don't tell them one thing and do something different. Be congruent with what you would like them to be by showing them how to be that way.
John Assaraf
#79. I'm not drunk,' I said indignantly.
You were just dancing like some wood nymph five minutes ago. You took your shirt off and now you're latched onto me like a little monkey. So don't tell me you're in complete control of yourself.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#80. Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.
Elvis Costello
#81. Then he did it, he crossed the line again. "Sal - Sal, don't tell anyone, but you're my favorite.
Mariana Zapata
#82. Whoa, there. Calm down." "Don't tell me what to do." "Okay, fine. Freak out.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#83. For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it. Make thy wants known to Him. Live as if ye expected them to be answered. For He has given, What ye ask in my name, believing, that will my Father in heaven give to thee.
Edgar Cayce
#84. I give Reiki, which is energy, but I don't tell too many people that.
Donna Karan
#85. Don't ask, don't tell means that World War III will pit the Chinese Red Army against the Pink Army of the United States.
Bill Gaede
#86. I needed, I needed ... you." "Don't tell me you need me." "But I can't help it. I do
Abbi Glines
#87. ...if you don't tell people you're hurt, they're not going to stop hurting you."
Dilly snorted. "Yeah, or they're going to hurt you twice as much.
Lyn Gala
#88. There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.
Haruki Murakami
#89. Please don't tell your family that I'm here," he says softly. "I want to keep a low profile."
"Done," I say, knowing that the story of how I got caught peeping in his back window like a weirdo will be an easy secret to keep.
A.M. Robinson
#90. Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.
John Wooden
#91. Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that number down - don't tell me, tell the other idiots!
Bernard Chidzero
#92. Build, don't tell
Show , don't sell
Anonymous
#93. The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
Andrew Loog Oldham
#94. If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#95. I don't tell him I couldn't have gorged if I'd tried, my stomach stuffed full of butterflies and grown-up worries.
Emily Murdoch
#96. Don't tell me not to drink. not to smoke. not to grieve.
if i speak of these things it's because i have to
but i am not speaking to you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#97. There's something you should probably know." "Please don't tell me you had gender reassignment surgery. I don't think I can manage that today.
Helena Hunting
#98. I one time tripped on that shit with Cassius for a week on the Thermic." She catches my look. "Well, it was before I met you. And have you ever seen him with his shirt off? Don't tell Sevro, by the way.
Pierce Brown
#99. Please don't tell me to relax
it's only my tension that's holding me together.
Jane Seabrook
#100. Please don't tell my momma I died in pain, he muttered ... He died right then. He didn't even live long enough to hear my lies about how everything was going to be okay
Chris Kyle
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