Somebody Tell Me Why Quotes

#1. Can somebody tell me why it is that trips to Home Depot are like potato chips, you can never have just one?

Aaron Blaylock

#2. Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

Amy Grant

#3. No holy place existed without us then,
no woodland, no dance, no sound.
Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless
days we spent might be made twice as long.
I prayed one word: I want.
Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time.

Sappho

#4. Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

Tom Petty

#5. Do you realize how many abusers are walking around unpunished? How many rape charges are dropped because of 'insufficient' evidence, or how many date rapists get away with what they've done because the victim is too scared to tell anyone?

Elle Kennedy

#6. Get you dead ass out of the sarcophagus and follow along," Tern muttered. "And no yelling for guards, and no continuing forward when we stop and then stomping all over us and crushing our spines and skulls under your undead feet because we didn't explicitly tell you not to do that.

Patrick Weekes

#7. Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

Bob Seger

#8. Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, 'Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make', so he will show you the solution.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

Vic Tayback

#10. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

Barry Lyga

#11. Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind.

John Green

#12. 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

#13. Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.

John Wooden

#14. I'm a pretty open person. Like, if I have good sex, then the next day I'm going to tell everyone I know about it.

Melissa Joan Hart

#15. Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Gertrude Stein

#16. I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

Charles Bronson

#17. Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

Arthur Miller

#18. Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God's people are afflicted. God's hand never slips.

Billy Graham

#19. The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

Evelyn Ashford

#20. For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.

Emma Stone

#21. Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

Bubba Watson

#22. I wish I knew how one is supposed to live. I wish somebody had taught me. Why do people we take for authorities when we are children let us down in this respect? Who is to tell us which is right? The cross, the crescent, the hammer and sickle, the smiling Buddha? do as you would be done by.

Tessa De Loo

#23. I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

Branch Rickey

#24. Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.

Will Rogers

#25. I said to myself: 'You mean all those people out there that I've been envying because they're not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn't somebody tell me!?' I guess I never asked.

Susan Jeffers

#26. I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

Charles M. Schulz

#27. If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Judy Garland

#28. 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

#29. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Alexei Sayle

#30. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Jean Reno

#31. Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no longer questioning me, for those eyes made me want to tell him everything. At the same time, those eyes revealed something to me. Was he in love with Alera?

Cayla Kluver

#32. The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

Salman Rushdie

#33. If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)

Johannes Gouws

#34. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.

Dale Peck

#35. Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth.

Neale Donald Walsch

#36. My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

Carl Crawford

#37. Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.

Groucho Marx

#38. Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.

Hilda Solis

#39. My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell.

CeeLo Green

#40. Your excellencies' wishes; only, I tell you beforehand, the carriage will cost you six piastres a day.

Alexandre Dumas

#41. Thought you were making a James Band Joke. Hard to tell with that accent

G. Norman Lippert

#42. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

Paul Neilan

#43. Have you ever tried?'
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't.

Melissa Marr

#44. Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and she said, "Not quite up to standard." Uh huh. I could tell from missus' face, there's bad, there's worse, and after that comes abysmal.

Sue Monk Kidd

#45. Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case or something?" "What?

Mina Carter

#46. People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

Johnny Carson

#47. Don't tell me it's going to fucking be okay! I am not okay with being that fucker's pinata!

Nenia Campbell

#48. When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

Shane Claiborne

#49. You're the one who can do no wrong." "I do plenty wrong." "You don't have to tell me.

Joy Fielding

#50. And girls tell me he's hot." He grinned and finished, "I wouldn't know, seein' as I'm a guy but I look like him and I'm smokin' hot so he's gotta be hot.

Kristen Ashley

#51. Yes," said Jalem as he returned to his brushing. "You've obviously done a superb job so far. Tell me, do I need to make an appointment to try and kill Drothe, or is it simply on a first-come, first-served basis? I can never keep kin etiquette straight.

Douglas Hulick

#52. Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.

Tyga