Top 100 Tell Me Something Quotes
#1. I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis
Philip Zaleski
#2. Take me somewhere I can grow
Give me something let me go
Tell me something I don't know
Laura Marling
#3. On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.
Mia Couto
#4. Tell me something wonderful- a story that's startling and marvelous.
Julie Eshbaugh
#5. Tell me something in your native woodland language.
Marta Acosta
#6. Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.
Ernest Gaines
#7. I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.
Ann Richards
#8. If you're courting me, you have to tell me something about yourself that no one else knows."
He was silent for a moment. "I'd rather jerk-off to thoughts of you than be with anyone else.
Katie Reus
#10. He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head
Chris Martin
#11. Then the wind came in with Bart and blew the vase of roses from the table. I stood and stared down at the crystal pieces and the petals scattered about. Why was the wind always trying to tell me something? Something I didn't want to hear!
V.C. Andrews
#12. I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
Wynn Bullock
#13. You're demented."
"Tell me something I don't know."
"Okay, how about, we're unarmed!"
-Droma & Han
James Luceno
#14. She turns her head away, but through the thin film of her veil he can see her skin glow. Because women will coax: tell me, just tell me something, tell me your thoughts; and this he has done.
Hilary Mantel
#15. Making people get over the concept that they've got the total proof. To get them to feel, 'Gee, I want to learn more. I want to hear anybody who can tell me something in addition to ways I already know about God or my spiritual principles.
John Templeton
#16. Tell me something, Adron. Sometime you've never shared with anyone else. Not even Thia. (Livia)
I'm the one who glued Zarina to the toilet seat when she was seven. (Adron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. Tell me something you haven't told anyone else before' 'turtles have the second biggest brain in the world' ' no they don't why did you tell me that' 'because I haven't told that to anyone else
Maggie Stiefvater
#18. If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.
Michael Hastings
#19. LSD wanted to tell me something ... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.
Albert Hofmann
#20. I just ... tell me something true about you."
"I own a pair of bell-bottoms," he confessed. "And an orange disco shirt."
"I don't believe you. You must wear it, then, next time I see you."
"I couldn't," the Gray Man said, amused. "I'd have to change my name to Mr. Orange.
Maggie Stiefvater
#21. I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong.
Albert Pujols
#22. Tell me something Micah, If you found a naked woman tied to your bed what would you think? That I have been a very good boy in a pass life.
Maya Banks
#23. And yet, quite often, she comes to me. Seldom to have anything explained, but often to tell me something.
When she comes over to me, I sit down on the floor. It does not seem right to tower over her when she is talking to me. Instead I sit down, then our heads are on a level.
Peter Hoeg
#24. Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."
Stef Penney
#25. I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.
Charles F. Glassman
#26. You need to tell me what's going on. Tell me something, babe. I can't do this anymore, this sick twisted worrying, I need more of the story." The sad smile he offered me pulled at my insides, "I don't want half of you, or bits and pieces, baby. I bloody want all of you.
Christine Zolendz
#27. It gives me comfort to know that people like you have a special place in hell waiting for them."
"Tell me something I don't already know.
Sarah J. Maas
#28. Now tell me something. What's your word for husband?"
"Hellren, I suppose. The short version is just hell."
She laughed softly. "Go figure.
J.R. Ward
#29. Tell me something,boys. Do you wear that leather to turn each other on? I mean, is it a dick thing with you all?
J.R. Ward
#31. I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.
Jennifer Paynter
#32. He glanced absently down at the front of the shirt as he attempted to smooth out the wrinkles, but then he caught sight of the slogan: Skilled in Every Position. He cocked an eyebrow at me. "You trying to tell me something?" My face burned red. "It's a basketball thing.
Maris Black
#33. Tell me something, Noah. Which is more important: freedom or happiness?'
What was this, a game? But Nijinsky wasn't smiling.
'You can't be happy unless your free,' Noah said.
Michael Grant
#34. He's in the military, serving overseas in Afghanistan."
"Well done. You're marrying an American hero," A.J. says.
"I guess I am."
"I hate those guys," he says. "They make me feel totally inadequate. Tell me something shitty about him so that I feel better.
Gabrielle Zevin
#35. Tell me something about yourself no one else knows, something I can keep for myself.
Colleen Hoover
#36. If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.
Chris Gethard
#37. Tell me something, princess, if I make a liar out of you ... will you forgive me? Hex James, Hex upon Me
Beth Mikell
#38. The Japanese Mafia. Tell me something, Jason, you ever hear anyone describe our thing as 'The Sicilian Yakuza'? Huh?
Neal Stephenson
#39. When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
Len Wein
#40. I came up with a plan. Rick, tell me something. What would it take to do a search over the Internet for the perfect woman for me? If
Alexis Gold
#41. You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.
Elliot Perlman
#42. When's your next doctor's appointment?" "In your last month, you go every week," Lynn said knowledgeably. "I'm due to go back in tomorrow. Maybe he'll tell me something.
Charlaine Harris
#43. time to time, someone will tell me something so patently unbelievable that I manage not to understand the words as they're spoken. This usually leads to my blathering something incredibly insensitive or incongruous which makes me look like a tremendous jackass. This was one of those moments.
J.P. Sloan
#44. Tell me something important about her. People make fun of her?"
"Some did," she said. "I never liked it, but ... "
"Crap." I looked at Molly and said, "Code Carrie. We're in trouble.
Jim Butcher
#45. I'm confused. Really confused. And it's a lot deeper than you think. Deeper ... darker ... colder. But tell me something. How could you have slept with me that time? How could you have done such a thing? Why didn't you just leave me alone?
Haruki Murakami
#46. I pull away ever so slightly and whisper to his lips, "Tell me something, tell me something you've never told anyone Lucas."
He whispers back, "I love you.
Savannah Randolph
#48. I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
George Woodcock
#49. I'm a predator. I wait for women to tell me what they want, and then I convince them that I can give it to them."
I laugh. "I already know you're a man. Tell me something new.
Tarryn Fisher
#50. Let me tell you, a discussion that starts, 'I'll tell you something you do that irritates me, if you tell me something I do that bothers you,' never ends in a hug and a kiss.
Phyllis Diller
#51. Guards! Take the bastard out and beat him! (Styxx)
Tell me something, brother. What angers you most about me? The fact I share your face or the fact I know exactly what your best friend wants to do to you ... and how often? Good to see you again, Lord Dorus, especially clothed. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.
Garth Nix
#53. Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows.
Colleen Hoover
#54. He was trying to tell me something."
Derek snorted. "Aren't they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook - if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement.
Kelley Armstrong
#55. There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think - but not for lies.
Diana Gabaldon
#56. Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, see? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all?
Walker Percy
#57. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.
Claudia Rankine
#58. Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me.
Catherynne M Valente
#60. Don't tell me something happened to her," I say, "not unless you want the world to burn.
J.M. Darhower
#61. Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you give me to remember you by? - or, even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help?
Shirley Jackson
#62. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Alexei Sayle
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.
Evelyn Ashford
#66. It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.
Ross King
#67. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.
John DiMaggio
#68. If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
Jeff Flake
#69. Hell, I didn't do relationships. Period. Though there was something about her that made me want to tell the old me to fuck off. "I
Lora Ann
#70. Liam. We'll figure something else out. Please don't go."
"Why not? Would you miss me?"
Ty looked into his eyes and nodded jerkily. "Yes, I would."
"So tell me why I shouldn't go." They stared at each other. Liam took a step back. "Or better yet, come with me and tell me every night.
Abigail Roux
#71. My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.
Shaquille O'Neal
#72. I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive.
Darlene Love
#73. Since you couldn't be bothered to give me your name, I'll just tell Moira that an extra from the porno version of Something Wicked This Way Comes was looking for her.
Allison Pang
#74. I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.
Earl Sweatshirt
#75. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.
J.D. Salinger
#76. I love when brides tell me they want to do something special and unique, but I'm not a fan of doing anything too crazy.
Austin Scarlett
#77. You believe me, don't you? You really do. Why do you believe me? Did Anechka do something to you? Now I owe you; and I may look little, but I know how to fight. I learned by fighting with Hargis. I'll kick her ass if she hurts you, Lane; just tell me - what did she do?
Blayne Giano O'hicidhe
Wynter Wilkins
#78. Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.
Jerry Stahl
#79. You want me to do something ... tell me I can't do it.
Maya Angelou
#80. I know that I'll move on, I tell myself I'll find me something better
I'll let go and just forget her
She was no good for me
Deep down I know that's the way it has to be so
How come I still can't open this letter
I can't forget her...
James Morrison
#81. I know they're true." "Because?" "Human nature," he said. "You know how it is. Whatever your intentions, if you have the ability to do something, then you will do it, sooner or later. The temptation is always there, and it can't be resisted forever. Don't tell me you think any different.
Lee Child
#82. Now, Sophia, would you care to tell me why you're here by the pond instead of reporting to your next class?'
'I'm experiencing some teenage angst, Mrs. Casnoff,' I answered. 'I need to, like, write in my journal or something.
Rachel Hawkins
#83. Let me tell you a secret, a tremendous and wonderful secret. Let me share with you something so valuable that any schoolboy would gladly trade his most treasured procession to find out what I shall tell you.
Maxwell Grantly
#84. Let me tell you something that I learned from my youth, from a sage called the Road Runner. You can walk off a cliff and the air will hold you. Only, don't look down.
Erin Bow
#85. Something tells me that Alex has some demons and I can tell you from experience that those suckers don't go down easy.
Mary J. Williams
#86. It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.
Rob Reiner
#87. 'It's not you, it's me.'
'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said when they dumped me. Is it in the Y-Chromosome User's Manual or something?'
He grinned. 'On page five. But, you know, don't tell anyone I told you.'
Kim Fielding
#88. I love that I can stay connected with my fans and be able to tell them what's going on - their opinions are so important to me. But at the same time, it's very weird. I think the Internet can be a great thing but also really evil. Something can instantly hurt your feelings.
Selena Gomez
#89. If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.
Anna Benson
#90. But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
Karl Malone
#91. Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Stephen King
#92. Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.
Bella Pollen
#93. My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.
Adrian Peterson
#94. He lifted his head, staring into her eyes as if searching for something. Voice ragged, he said, "I told you I'm a possessive man, Eleri. I want to keep you, mount you, fill you, but even as I hold you like this... I am still your captive. Have mercy and tell me you'll have me.
Sandra Jones
#95. I thought creators were supposed to tell their younglings they were special. I didn't know mine meant something more when she told me. I could've never known what she'd seen in the water. My future was a secret she kept bound up inside her.
K.P. Ambroziak
#96. Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.
Clint Eastwood
#97. You're right. I'm not the kind of woman to do something foolish out of defiance. I am, however, the kind of woman who would do something just to prove that you can't tell me what kind of woman I am.
Carolyn Crane
#98. It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again? Really? I never set out with that intention.'
Stephen Merchant
#99. Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people's misery. They lie when it suits them and don't see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don't have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.
Brenna Yovanoff
#100. Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?
Charles L. Allen
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