Top 100 Quotes On Tell
#1. A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them. Look at her own daughters. Keffria, who only wanted someone to tell her what to do, and Althea, who only desired that she do her own will always."
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Robin Hobb
#3. I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
Tracy Kidder
#4. I got feelings I don't know the names for. There probly ain't any names. Probly nobody else ever had 'em. I tell you what, I wouldn't wish 'em on a snake.
Marilynne Robinson
#5. Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.
Karl Kraus
#6. Well, maybe you should tell me before you get angry at me for doing something I didn't know you didn't want me to do. And maybe when you get angry you'll find a way to let me know you are without being a total jerk.
Kristen Ashley
#7. If one person tells you you're a horse, they're crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, there's a conspiracy afoot. If 10 people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle." The point is that if several people are telling you the same thing, there is probably some truth in it.
Jack Canfield
#8. Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#9. I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it 'creative.' I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.
David Ogilvy
#10. The frown on his face dissolved, and he shook his head. "No, it's not you, it's me. I can't stop thinking about your breasts and it's pissing me off." His eyes did a rapid blinking thing. "Hell. Tell me I didn't just say that.
Sandra Owens
#11. Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.
Stephen Karam
#12. Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.
Michael Keaton
#13. I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
Hedy Lamarr
#14. Yesterday that new lipstick made me very happy," I tell the counselor. "But today, it just doesn't seem like enough.
Shannon Olson
#15. Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.
Brit Morin
#16. Has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you, if you tell me, without lying that somebody had cut it out
Charles Dickens
#18. I get fans stopping me and telling me what a bad man I am. I got a lot of that at Comic-Con. I'd tell them, 'Sorry, mate.'
David Bradley
#19. You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble.
Joe Hill
#20. I could tell that we were in the midst of many trees ... this fact was like the water running endlessly ... It was a deep current beneath the surface of a stream.
Ned Hayes
#21. So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.
Paul Krugman
#22. I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.
J. Edgar Hoover
#23. Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.
Deval Patrick
#24. It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather
Malidoma Patrice Some
#25. 'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.
Peter Guber
#26. When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
Karl Barth
#27. If you would like to know how easy it is to overlook evil, Petra could tell you: it is the easiest thing in the world.
Marie Rutkoski
#28. Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
Brock Clarke
#29. Sometimes an answer doesn't come in one go. Sometimes it has so many layers to it that it takes time for the person to tell you what they really mean.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
#30. Tell you something, my friend - if I worked hard and really wanted it, there might be a real Rembrandt on my wall someday.
Sure.
In a job like this, there is nowhere to go but up.
In a way, that's the scary part ...
Stephen King
#31. If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
Rebecca West
#32. I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.
Sarah Palin
#33. Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.
Pamela Yates
#34. It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.
Edwin McCain
#35. Tell me, what smells like shit and screams like a girl? (Syn)
(He shot the Partini in the knee.)
That's right. You. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.
James Rosenquist
#37. The newly developed snarky side of my personality wanted to tell him 'There's no crying in vamp battles.
Robyn Jones
#38. I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
Christopher Eccleston
#39. They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.
Khalil Gibran
#40. When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.
Robert Osborne
#41. 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
#42. What if the cloak wasn't magic at all, like the feather in that story Granny used to tell me about the elephant with the big ears?
Wendy Toliver
#43. But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.
C.S. Lewis
#44. He took the hat from my mouth. 'Tell me you love me', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
Alice Sebold
#45. The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
Saint Augustine
#46. If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
Helen Reddy
#47. You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman
#48. When we settled in to eat, Susan said, "So, tell me about it." "You shrinks are always so cocksure," I said. "Nice word choice," Susan said. "In the current context.
Robert B. Parker
#49. I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.
Ruth Reichl
#50. None of us know what will make you happy. That is a question you have to ask yourself. But what I can tell you for certain is that you will have to ask yourself and get to a place where the sound of your voice is the clearest voice in the room.
Gemma B. Benton
#51. The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until she's done crying. If she curses me, curse with her. And if by any chance she asks about me, tell her that I'm sorry.
Kim Do-Jin
#52. 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
#53. As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
Stephen King
#54. When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.
Juan Williams
#55. She had lost interest in her marriage. There was nothing else to say. It was a prison.
'No, I'll tell you what it is , I'm indifferent to it . I am bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false.They're deceiving themselves.
James Salter
#56. She lets go.
Touch me again, I want to tell her. But I don't.
Nina LaCour
#57. Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape
Ellen Hopkins
#58. People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.
Anthony Hopkins
#59. Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?
Alan Watts
#60. tattoos are like bumper stickers in some respects. Their wearers want to tell the world something.
Barbara Delinsky
#61. I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White
#62. Believe in yourself. Tell yourself everyday "I am a talented person with a wonderful gift to give others!"
Shantel VanSanten
#63. I really should have known better. It would be damn near impossible to tell a fib about not being cold to a being that both had an innate mastery over elemental fire and was magically bound to my soul.
Corinn Heathers
#64. The past is gone. My life is a miracle! With gratitude to God, I am still here to remember and to tell what happened to me during the Holocaust of WWII.
Leah Cik Roth
#65. There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.
Jeff VanderMeer
#66. He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Douglas Adams
#67. I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.
Miranda Lambert
#68. Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.
David Gregory
#69. Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.
Cesar Millan
#70. Oh! for Thy mercies' sake, tell me, O Lord my God, what Thou art unto me.
Augustine Of Hippo
#71. The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one day from another, hardly one place from another. Nothing was distinct or distinguishable. Often he lost himself for an hour at a time, could not remember what he had done.
D.H. Lawrence
#72. What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.
Frank Miller
#73. No one has been successful in this 'race course'. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. 'We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. 'We' would simply tell, 'Dear Man, I am not capable.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. I have nothing I want to ask you, and if I did, you would probably lie anyway."
"I'm drunk. Drunk people tell the truth."
"Like hell they do. Besides you're not that drunk."
"Then dare me something."
I snorted. "No, because I'm not that drunk, or stupid.
Elizabeth Morgan
#75. Worried moon
I'm afraid of what's to come
Worried moon
Yeah, tell me what you know
Worried moon
You see further down the road
Worried moon
Chris Cornell
#76. We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.
Lee Zeldin
#77. What we're really trying to tell, even though it's very much a genre show, is a very human story. Even in this heightened situation, it still comes down to people being people, and dealing with people as people. It really is about the seven people in that town.
Remi Aubuchon
#78. My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."
Patricia McConnell
#79. I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#80. "Tell em keep my name out they mouth cuz they dont know me"
Lil' Wayne
#81. Now, you listen, Alyssa Victoria Gardner. Normal is subjective. Don't ever let anyone tell you you're not normal. Because you are to me. And my opinion is all that matters. Got it?
A.G. Howard
#82. The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.
Louis De Bernieres
#83. When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.
Mitchel Resnick
#84. But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another.
Marilyn French
#85. I want to tell him that even though we both regretted it, that minute we spent kissing was the one minute out of my entire life that I wouldn't trade for the world
Colleen Hoover
#86. But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.
Kathy Griffin
#87. You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.
Jake Johnson
#88. Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like a chain gang for weapons. Some of them might be good, some of them might be bad, but there was no way to tell until somebody picked them up.
Craig Johnson
#89. In a world of twelve-years-olds in sexy boots and nans in sparkly mini-dresses, the surest way to tell the prostitute walking into a hotel at Heathrow is to look for the lady in the designer suit.
Belle De Jour
#90. who wanted to see a monster, even if it meant that you got to tell everyone about it?
Kelly Link
#91. We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!
Charles Darwin
#92. Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves and the way that you sing them to tell something about the character and his story, as well as develop a performance style.
Alessandro Nivola
#93. You will tell him that Uhtred of Bebbanburg is in a mood to kill.
Bernard Cornwell
#94. Collectively, these findings tell us it's conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as panspermia.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#95. The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.
Charlie Brooker
#96. Variant selves haunt
the corridors of my brain, people
my novels, crowd in like ghosts
drawn to blood when friends
or strangers tell me secrets,
hand me their troubles,
sweaters knit of hair and wire.
Marge Piercy
#97. When you're raising a little kid, you tell that kid to go after their goals and their dreams. And you tell them to work as hard as anybody.
Romeo Miller
#98. Women do too much shit to impress men who can barely tell the difference.
Anna Todd
#99. It is over, isn't it?" Trustingly, he seemed to be waiting for her to tell him, as if she would know. As if hearing himself say it meant nothing; he had a dubious attitude toward his own words; they didn't become real, not until she agreed.
"It's over," she said.
Philip K. Dick
#100. Motorboat to heaven, baby's got the key. Tell me, how am I supposed to get in close back here on these water skis?
John Hiatt
