Top 100 Quotes About Tell Me
#1. And damn well no 5-0 with his Smokey the Bear looking sidekick, will ever tell me differently.
J.J. McAvoy
#2. 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
#3. People still tell me I'm fat, but when I look in the mirror, that's not what I see.
Lara Stone
#4. Tell me you like it, Olivia. Say the words. Tell me I'm the only one who can set your body on fire like this.
T.K. Leigh
#5. My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas
#6. The quarterback? Wow. My mom wouldn't let me stand in the same checkout line as a high school senior. She's so lame.
She's not lame.
She thinks eighteen year old boys are dangerous. She calls them penises with hands and feet. Tell me that isn't lame.
Kristin Hannah
#7. He leaned his forehead against hers. "Tell me you want this.
Chudney Thomas
#8. Do you know the story?
No, Finn, but I have a feeling you're going to tell me.
J.R. Richardson
#9. I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.
Sarah Silverman
#10. Tell me that you didn't break the ban, Rory. Tell me that there aren't two Bradfords beating the shit out of each other over the last slice of cheese in my kitchen.
R.L. Mathewson
#11. Tell me what the fuck you want me to do, and I'll do it.
Thea Harrison
#12. They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning.
Initially NO
#13. You're sorry, Chaol's sorry, the whole damn world is sorry. Tell me what you and your movement want. Tell me what you know about the king's plans.
Sarah J. Maas
#14. You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro
#15. You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?
Ed Koch
#16. The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but he just looked like the same devil to me
Quil Carter
#17. What is a Shadowhunter made of, if they desert their own, if they throw away a child's heart like rubbish left on the side of the road? Tell me, Simon Lewis, if that is what Shadowhunters are, why would I wish to be one?
Cassandra Clare
#18. I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.
Willie Aames
#19. Tell me, Comrade, what is capitalism?" "The exploitation of man by man." "And what is communism?" "The reverse." Okay,
Eric Weiner
#20. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.
Paul Beatty
#21. Trust you? Rue
trust you? You counterfeited your own death rather than wed me. You told me you'd rather die than stay in Darkfrith. I can't
I don't know how to fix that. I don't know how to mend it. Tell me." He took a step toward her. "Tell me, and I'll do it.
Shana Abe
#22. Aw babygirl, tell me you want to get stabbed somewhere naughty," he
Jessica Gadziala
#23. Don't tell me something happened to her," I say, "not unless you want the world to burn.
J.M. Darhower
#25. Tell me what time you spend alone with God ...
and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
Leonard Ravenhill
#26. Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.
David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich.
Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
Sabrina Jeffries
#27. Could you tell me how to grow
or is it unconveyed
like Melody
or Witchcraft?
Emily Dickinson
#28. Please tell me it's going to rain today, Francois.'
'Ah!' he smiled. (This was obviously familiar territory.) 'I regret to inform you that the forecast calls for nothing but sunshine.'
'Relentless sunshine,' she corrected him.
Kathleen Tessaro
#29. But tell me now, where was my fault in loving you with my whole heart?
Mumford & Sons
#30. Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.
John Denver
#31. Why didn't you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?
Oscar Wilde
#32. My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
Simon Cowell
#33. They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
Nick Lowe
#34. Dreams like podcast. Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff.
Rick Riordan
#36. Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
Abraham Lincoln
#37. Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!
Thomas Hardy
#38. 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
#39. All thrones should be made of ice, I think.
Sit on that numb arse, sinking down and down, with the puddle of dissolution getting ever wider around you. Sit, dear ruler, and tell me all your grand designs.
Steven Erikson
#40. I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.
Maria McCann
#41. What is the matter with your master?" George asked Dawtie as they bounced along toward Potlurg.
"God knows, sir."
"What is the use of telling me that? I want you to tell me what YOU know."
"I don't know anything, sir.
George MacDonald
#42. I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
Yanni
#43. Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.
Shane Carruth
#44. It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
William Morris Hunt
#45. Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
Bob Barker
#46. My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.
Bell Hooks
#47. Do not tell me you don't know you're pretty. If so, I'm
about to lose all faith in mankind. You don't want to be responsible for that.
J. Lynn
#48. Its so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever get me?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#49. Plus, how can she be your soul mate? Didn't you tell me she'd never read Harry Potter? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with someone like that? I mean, for God's sake, think of your children. What kind of environment would they be growing up in with such a mother?
Krystal Sutherland
#50. Tell me the truth. Are you angry at me because you thought I took that girl home, or is it something else? Because you're mad at me for something.
Jamie McGuire
#51. Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.
Robin McKinley
#52. Don't tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.
Leo Burnett
#53. And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real.
Denis Johnson
#54. That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me
do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?
Nicholas Sparks
#55. Want to read my mind to see what I'm thinking about?" "Nay. Tell me," he urged as he nuzzled her neck. "You, our future, and our love.
Donna Grant
#56. I'm living in a world someone has thought up without bothering to tell me, or maybe even himself.
Arkady Strugatsky
#57. I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
Etgar Keret
#58. Won't you at least call a gynecologist in to see me? You're not a specialist in this area." "I don't need you to tell me what my specialties are," he said angrily. "It would be best for everybody concerned if you have an abortion, no matter which way you have it.
Assata Shakur
#59. Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?'
'Oh yes,' said Thomas.
'I don't believe it. By whom?'
'By Our Lord... on the altar.
Louis De Wohl
#60. These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were.
John McLaughlin
#62. I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
Michael Masser
#63. I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.
Roger Ebert
#65. Catch my eye,tell me what you see
Wonder if they could guess it about me
Here i'm standing in a double life
One with love,one with strife
Try to act normal,and play it cool
So afraid of breaking a rule
But now i'm falling to hard to stop
Can't help but take the next drop
Alexandra Monir
#66. Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?
Maya Banks
#67. At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
Jonathan Kozol
#68. Walking through your memories doesn't tell me what's going on inside of your head. No cause, only effect.
Alexandra Bracken
#69. I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#70. Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.
Kyrie Irving
#71. It's like one day I just decided that it was all bullshit. Who are they to tell me I'm not amazing exactly as I am?
Emily Nagoski
#72. Hermione, will you please - "
"Don't you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!" she screeched. "Don't you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!"
She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.
J.K. Rowling
#73. Have mercy, Dad," said Kami. "Tell me you're here to rescue me before they break out the Jell-O.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#74. Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
Andrew Sarris
#75.
you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#76. Tell me a story then ... keep me occupied."
"A story? ... What makes you think I can tell a story?"
"Insight," said the king, "Go on.
Megan Whalen Turner
#77. I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#78. Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
Clarence Clemons
#79. Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!
Michelle Obama
#80. What do you think the most gruelin' thing about evolution is?" "I don't know. Tell me," I said. "It's being unable to pick and choose. Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late." I
Haruki Murakami
#81. All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour.
Ellen DeGeneres
#82. Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
Bear Bryant
#83. If you spot anything, or you think of anything I haven't, tell me, won't you?" This was rather thrilling: Robin prided herself on her observational powers; they were one reason she had secretly cherished the childhood ambition that the large man beside her was living.
Robert Galbraith
#84. Your blindness to my downfall,
Has gone too far to be a joke,
As I stand ablaze before you,
And you tell me you smell smoke.
Erin Hanson
#85. People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.
Selena Gomez
#86. I said very little. I knew that for the time being I was the open air, the place to put the words, not a real interlocutor. And then, ekthout a transition of any kind, she began to tell me .... {p. 134}
Siri Hustvedt
#87. I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely that all I really want is for someone to tell me that my efforts have added up to something - not one of my better qualities, I admit.
Kevin Brockmeier
#88. I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
Lesli Linka Glatter
#89. I don't care how much money you get," my dad used to tell me. "It's not worth it if you're not happy." That's the most valuable piece of advice he ever gave me: Do what you want in life. To this day I've tried to follow that philosophy.
Chris Kyle
#90. It made me hope he would tell me that he still needed me despite all that he had, that he really missed me and wanted me back, but he didn't.
Durjoy Datta
#91. The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation ... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.
Satpal Maharaj
#92. But if you knew about this ... conspiracy, why did you cooperate with it? Why did you allow Hae-Joo Im to get so close to you?
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?
Tell me.
We see an end beyond the endgame ...
David Mitchell
#93. I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
Jim Carrey
#94. He's good in bed, too?" Marnie asked, clearly skeptical. "That just isn't fair. If I looked like him, I'd
never leave my house. I'd just stay home and fuck myself. If you tell me he has a big dick, I might become either a cutter or a lesbian.
R.K. Lilley
#95. I want you to tell me how this normally works. Do we hunt down the Dark Ones? Do we have a scheduled battle with the Big Bad Dark One? Do I need to run up and hit him in the face with a glove and declare a duel? What?
Nichole Chase
#96. From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.
Brad Feld
#97. Tell me, Lady Angeline, is there a color not represented in your rather splendid riding hat? It would be a shame if there were. It would be sitting all alone on a palette somewhere, feeling rejected and dejected.
Mary Balogh
#98. Though I said art sure no craven vastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore, tell me why thy lordly name is on the nigts plutonium shore, quoth the raven never more
Edgar Allan Poe
#99. I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.
Gerald R. Ford
#100. Echo is my life. My life. I lover her. If there's a chance I can make her happy ... If I can save what's between us ... I'll do it, so fucking tell me!
Katie McGarry
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