Top 100 Tell Me How Quotes
#2. 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
#3. Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
With crazy youth's arrogant way?
Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
Had I myself not also been insufferable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
Emil Cioran
#6. Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#7. Friends often tell me how much their grandchildren enjoy 'Are You Being Served?' It doesn't matter that they were not even born when it was broadcast, or that they belong to a very different world.
Jeremy Lloyd
#8. Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.
Cory Booker
#9. You're not using me. You're mine. You are my own personal goddess. It's my job to make sure you're happy. And if I can't make you happy, I won't feel right if you're not taken care of as best as I can. So please, tell me how many people so I can feel right.
C.D. Reiss
#10. So you take her to the pictures,
trying to become a fixture.
Inch by inch trying to reach her,
all the way through the second feature.
Worrying about your physical fitness,
tell me how you got this sickness?
Elvis Costello
#11. I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they're going to say 'my way of doing a film is better.' I'm not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?
Michel Gondry
#12. A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Maria Mitchell
#13. It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was.
Bill Cosby
#14. It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.
Jenny Lewis
#15. Could you tell me how to grow
or is it unconveyed
like Melody
or Witchcraft?
Emily Dickinson
#16. I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.
Maria McCann
#17. 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
#18. Don't tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.
Leo Burnett
#20. 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
#21. But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?
Walter E. Williams
#22. Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.
Francine Rivers
#23. And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.
Chuck Klosterman
#24. How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father - the passion, the fury - and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love 'La Bamba.'
Esai Morales
#25. I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.
Jim Beaver
#27. One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.
Alasdair Gray
#28. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?" It doesn't tell me how I feel about it tomorrow or even a few minutes from now. It just tells me how I'm feeling right now.
Sheena Iyengar
#29. They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead.
Thomm Quackenbush
#30. Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are.
Muhammad
#31. It wasn't enough to pass him as we were heading to your house or cutting over to the library. Soon you had to have sightings in the halls too. Then sightings turned to spying, and spying to stalking. You could tell me how many pairs of jeans he owned before you officially knew his name.
David Levithan
#32. Tell me how you are."
"I'm fine, Mother."
"No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.
Marisa Silver
#33. Where did I surrender, can you tell me how and when. I'm the one who's always in control. Leading with my heart like there is nothing to defend as I lay it all out on the line body and soul. I've never let another in so soon.
Toby Keith
#34. It's a wonder, given your prowess with these delicious women, that there aren't dozens of little Bonapartes running around. Tell me, how do you account for that?
Carolly Erickson
#35. I don't care what you've done. Just tell me how you feel.
Tarryn Fisher
#36. Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me, she thought, and the words were true enough that she repeated them aloud: "Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me.
Seanan McGuire
#37. Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
Billy Connolly
#38. Don't tell me how to grieve. Don't tell me ghosts fade away eventually, like they do in movies, waving goodbye with see-through hands. Lots of things fade away but ghosts like these don't, heartbreak like these doesn't.
Anthony Doerr
#39. CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
William Shakespeare
#41. Then she turns to me. 'Tell me. How are you really?' she says, as if there were two versions of my life, and now she is not on the verge of tears at all, but sharp-voiced as an interrogator.
Per Petterson
#42. People tell me how do they want you.. and I JUST DO STUFF... I JUST DO IT... THAT'S A FACT!
Deyth Banger
#43. That's your orgasm talking," I say. "You're not really in love with me."
"You can't tell me how I feel," he says. His voice gets quiet, trails off at the end. "I could be your boyfriend.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
#44. I think I have to laugh about the fact that I grew up in public. All these weird stages in my teenage years are documented. Why did no one tell me how terrible some of those outfits were?
Justin Timberlake
#45. I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
H.R. Giger
#46. If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion.
Geraldine Brooks
#47. I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.
Stephen Chbosky
#48. He's had ten years to make you fall in love with him. I haven't had ten weeks! Tell me how that's fair!
Sandy Williams
#49. Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?
John Adams
#50. Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.
Louise Penny
#51. For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon
#52. Look you dead in the face
Now tell me how good does it taste
Rick Ross
#53. Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them.
Helmut Thielicke
#54. Don't begin to tell me how much you can judge a man by his faults
Mitsuba Takanashi
#55. Tell me what you like, tell me how you feel, tell me which stuff are your favourite, what you enjoy doing and so far I can give you one well written book based on this stuff!?
Deyth Banger
#56. We measure time according to the movement of countless suns; and they measure time by little machines in their little pockets.
Now tell me, how could we ever meet at the same place and the same time?
Kahlil Gibran
#57. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"
"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.
Jane Austen
#58. P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.
Joanne Fluke
#59. I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
Aaron Schock
#60. This has been one of the more comedic aspects of this 72 hours - watching a cavalcade of extremely wealthy pundits, editorialists and political operatives from New York and Washington tell me how rural Americans won't stand for this.
Josh Marshall
#61. Why didn't you tell me how dangerous my feelings were?"
"There's a difference between power and danger. Your feelings are more powerful than anything in the world. But you shouldn't be afraid of them. Love is bigger than fear.
Lauren Kate
#62. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
Anne Rice
#63. Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
Peter Tosh
#64. Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how.
Herbert Mason
#65. A toast to the engagement on your former fiance and your former best friend. Tell me, how hard did you have to grit your teeth?"
As Lucy refused to answer, he laughed softly. "Forgive me. I don't mean to detract from your noble gesture.
Lisa Kleypas
#66. When I began my career as a writer I thought it would be fun to put my imagination to the page. Now I am finding out that my imagination is able to fill in those pesky holes called details all on its own, and then neglecting to tell me how it did it.
Jonathan Bender
#67. He doesn't tell me how beautiful I am; he shows me.
M.J. Fields
#68. When it's quiet in my head like this, that's when the voice doesn't need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it's quiet like this, that's when I truly hate myself.
Portia De Rossi
#69. I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.
Jodi Picoult
#70. If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
Samantha Smith
#71. When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
Kate Mara
#72. As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
Jacqueline Susann
#73. Look don't sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train
Viktoria Komova
#74. Enough already with your macho bullcrap. I am sick to death of men telling me how to run my life. In case you didn't notice, I have a whole bevy of men downstairs just dying to tell me how I don't measure up. The last thing I need is another one.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. Finny never tells anyone how he is feeling; you just have to know him well enough to understand when he is sad or scared. Today his expression does not tell me how he feels about me being over here. Either he couldn't care less, or he could be annoyed.
Laura Nowlin
#76. And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
Robert G. Ingersoll
#77. People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.
Steven Spielberg
#78. Try to get up from above,then tell me how you did it.
Ana Plascencia
#79. I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.
Aisha Tyler
#80. Tell me, how do get away from your own self? she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.
Shannon A. Thompson
#81. This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to return the favor.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#83. We have to get the ... the thing I got ... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home."
Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.
Neil Gaiman
#84. I ask you for the time of day, you tell me how to build a clock!
Wally Lamb
#85. I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
Andy Taylor
#86. You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire,
Nik Wallenda
#87. I'm scared, I burn, o Dragon please tell me, How do you love a fire? Every scale upon his body trumpeted its delighted recognition. He bugled back: You become the fire. Even
Marc Secchia
#88. When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.
Michael Winterbottom
#89. I don't have anything to pay you with now," Blake said, turning toward Chaos. "But just tell me how much, and I'll make sure this debt is paid."
Chaos shrugged. "Dude, I owe Beckett. Just let him know."
Blake nodded and stood. Of course. Everyone owes Beckett something.
Debra Anastasia
#90. There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.
Moby
#91. Don't be sad. Even if the world won't forgive you, I'll forgive you.
Don't be sad. Even if you don't forgive the world, I'll forgive you.
So please tell me. How do I make you forgive me?
Ryukishi07
#92. Don't tell me how you hate your new foster home. If they're not beating you, consider yourself lucky.
Janet Fitch
#93. You have the other half of my heart and I can't live without it." He gripped my shoulders, his forehead to mine. "You are the other half of me. Tell me how to fight for you, baby. Tell me what to do. I'll do whatever you want. Don't take my life away from me. Forgive me.
Kate Stewart
#94. And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.
Olivier Martinez
#95. It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?
Charles Dickens
#96. Please tell me how the hell was I not going to fall in love with her? Without a doubt, she's the most amazing person I've ever known.
Abi Ketner
#97. Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?
Trevor Hall
#98. With the weight of his body, he pressed her back against the wall, and licked the soft spot below her earlobe. "Tell me how much you f***ing want me," he breathed.
Gail McHugh
#99. 95. But please don't write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. I already know how you are in love with your weeping.
Maggie Nelson
#100. Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.
Sanober Khan
