Quotes About Someone Telling You You Can't Do Something

#1. To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

Sammy Sosa

#2. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.

Jane Austen

#3. I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And also, unless asked, I don't judge. And if asked to judge - I would approach it socratically, I would approach it with questions.

Tim Gunn

#4. I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

Jane Campion

#5. You keep telling me that you're mine. I told you not to do that but you didn't heed my warning. I believe you.

Laurann Dohner

#6. There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

Xavier Dolan

#7. Critical thinking is essential to make sense of our world, especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us loudly that they know best. We need to be able to look at the evidence and work out whether we agree with them.

Helen Czerski

#8. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Jane Wiedlin

#9. A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain don't have a gift for telling a story.

Flannery O'Connor

#10. I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

Rian Johnson

#11. Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage ... there's no telling him what's funny.

Harold Ramis

#12. Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Tom Waits

#13. Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own.

Rachel Hartman

#14. It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.

Martin Freeman

#15. You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

John Malkovich

#16. Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#17. There is a "yoga body" aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, "Wow, you're so brave," simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.

Kathryn Budig

#18. Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

Sean William Scott

#19. Australian Aborigines say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush.

Robert Moss

#20. The happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#21. Antoine was one hundred and ten percent certain that this was a very bad idea. Very very bad. Unfortunately, the raging hard-on in his boxers was telling him that he was in the mood for something very very bad

Jennifer Ashley

#22. William Faulkner said, "The only story worth telling is that of the human mind in conflict with itself".

Miles Skedsvold

#23. There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.

Cecelia Ahern

#24. Wyatt gave him a look, making it obvious he thought Clay had lost his mind. "You telling me you think a piece of pie's gonna fix my problems?"
"Why not?" Clay laughed. "Fixed mine.

Kele Moon

#25. Every smart / Is eased in telling.

Georgiana Goddard King

#26. When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Samuel Colbran

#27. And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.

Richard Llewellyn

#28. I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Victoria Wood

#29. What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.

Maxine Greene

#30. The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

Voltaire

#31. Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

Richelle Mead

#32. I don't mind telling a dark side.

Clint Eastwood