Top 100 Tell Me What You Want Quotes
#1. Tell me what you want?" His breath was warm against her lips.
"I want you."
"How? Give me permission, tell me it's okay to strip you naked, kiss you wherever the need takes me, and f**k you until you can't see straight."
"Yes, yes, please, all of that.
Dominique Eastwick
#2. I loved you. I still love you. Even when I hate you, I love you. I always will. I'm not a smart man, but I know that." ... "Tell me what you want. If you want it, I'll leave. Not for him. I'll never do anything for him. But for you, I'll do it. I'll fucking kill myself inside of him.
Alessandra Torre
#3. I need you, Charlotte, I need you like air, like light. Without you there's only darkness. There's emptiness. Tell me what you want me to do. I'd wait forever for you. Just don't tell me you don't want me back.
Nancy Gideon
#4. What do you want, Morgan?" he asks after a moment, his voice low. "Just... tell me what you want from me. I can't stand here and do this with you."
"You named me," I say. That's not the first time I've heard him call me by my real name. Morgan. "You only name what you keep, remember?
J.M. Darhower
#5. Tell Me what you want, and
I'll Show you how to get it.
Bob Proctor
#6. Ohhh that's good. Fuck you're greedy. What do you want, huh? Tell me what you want.
Charlotte Stein
#7. In his mind, he said, Tell me what you want. And she said, Leave this city. She said, Take me with you.
Marie Rutkoski
#8. Tell me what you want, Mads."
"You," she said in a shaky whisper. "I want you, Ronan.
Sara Humphreys
#9. When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.
David Cottrell
#10. Tell me what you want" he [Warner] says desperately. "Tell me what to do," he says, "and I'll do it.
Tahereh Mafi
#11. Fine. I can negotiate with the best of 'em. I took a CLASS. Tell me what you want.
M. Chandler
#12. I care for you-you're precious to me. And one of the most precious things to me is your voice. Please tell me what you want, what you need, what you desire ...
Sylvain Reynard
#13. Tell me what you want, sweetheart ... Anything. And I'll do it.
J. Lynn
#14. Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want ... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.
Andy Richter
#15. Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said.
"Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.
Maureen Johnson
#16. Blaire, tell me what you want me to do. I'll do whatever it is you need.
Abbi Glines
#17. I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.
Nicholas Sparks
#18. Tell me what you want, my love," he rasped through parted lips. "Tell me now."
"You, Staff, you. Forever and always. Please."
"Only Staff?"
"Yes, yes. Please, my love. Put out the fire."
"But first I have to fan it brighter," he said low, and moved into her instantly.
Karen Harper
#19. In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.
Nina Hoss
#20. Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.
Brunonia Barry
#21. Tell me what you want," he demanded. "Say the words." Because he needed to hear them. Some primal part of him wanted her to spell it out.
Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes heavy-lidded. "Kiss me."
"Where?
Katie Reus
#22. Ezri, if you need to hit me, then by the gods hit me. If that's what you need, I won't fight you for a second. Not ever. Just ... tell me what you want.
Scott Lynch
#23. Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.
Anton Chekhov
#24. I could be whatever you want. you just tell me what you want and I'm gonna be that for you.
Nicholas Sparks
#25. Tell me what you want, love," I tell her, my voice rough with lust. "Tell me what you want and I'll give you what I have.
Karina Halle
#26. Id you're finished picking out my flaws,maybe you'd like to tell me what you want now.I have other customers
"
"You."
"What was that?"
"I Want You.
Johanna Lindsey
#27. Gray," he whispered in his ear.
Grayson moaned softly in return.
"I'm here for you. I exist only for you. Tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it.
Elaine White
#28. Tell me what you want, baby."
"Just you. However you come."
"I come with uncontrollable love for you. Is that good enough?
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#29. I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.
John Scalzi
#30. Oh no. You wanted to be turned around and fucked like a bad girl. Now you'll say the bad words that go along with it. Tell me what you want.
Tessa Bailey
#31. A woman who knows what she wants sexually, and isn't afraid to express it is so fucking hot, Camryn- Tell. Me. What. You. Want. Or, I won't give it to you.
J.A. Redmerski
#32. But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
Ann Brashares
#33. I want you to tell me why you have a pair of broken angel wings on your shoulder. I want you to tell me why you cut your wrists and I want to know why and how you play and sing the way you do, but most of all I want you to tell me what I need to do to be a good enough man for you.
Christine Zolendz
#34. Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when I didn't want to do it. But I've lived with one for a while now and I guess I can put myself more in their position. You shouldn't be too sympathetic to them.
Helen Mirren
#35. Better not I tell you. You want to know what I do? I say doudou, if you have trouble you are right to come to me. And I kiss her. It's when I kiss her she cry - not before.
Jean Rhys
#36. Are you going to tell me what that was about?" Adam asked as we went back upstairs.
"Sometime," I told him. "When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.
Patricia Briggs
#37. One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute whazzaam, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like What's it all about, when you get right down to it?
Terry Pratchett
#38. I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.
Sandra Bullock
#39. Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible - time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.
Richard Ford
#40. As we ride the elevator Gale finally says "You're still angry."
"And you're still not sorry," I reply.
"I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?" he asks.
"No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion," I tell him.
Suzanne Collins
#41. What did he say about me?" Tom demanded.
"You don't want to know."
"You're right."
"Told you," Prophet said, looking quite pleased with himself. "Don't say I never tell you anything.
S.E. Jakes
#42. The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find me in my last performance.
Kristen Bell
#43. If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.
Charlie Trotter
#44. He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. "You want to tell me what this is?" he demanded.
"It's a door, Jace," said Clary.
Cassandra Clare
#45. The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.
Azar Nafisi
#46. Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that you need your distance, distance. Tell me anything but don't you say he's what you're missing baby. If he's the reason that you're leaving me tonight, spare me what you think and Tell Me a Lie.
One Direction
#47. Please ... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.
Gary Zukav
#48. Tell me, Tayla," he whispered as he broke away.
"Did you eveer imagine me doing this to you?"
"Tell me what I want to know and I"ll reward you."
~Ethan
Rosalie Lario
#49. I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma ... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?
Toni Morrison
#51. You know how spooky Ashwini is. She called an hour ago to tell me she has a secret stash of handheld grenade launchers she thought I might want to know about. My response was, 'What the fuck?
Nalini Singh
#52. He held the door shut with his hand. "I'll stop fighting the second I graduate. I won't drink a single drop again. I'll give you the happy ever after, Pigeon. If you just believe in me, can do it."
"I don't want you to change."
"Then tell me what to do. Tell me and I'll do it," he pleaded.
Jamie McGuire
#53. Tell me Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up? ... Alive
Ally Carter
#54. The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it ... " Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues
Ronald D. Moore
#55. It's easy to tell someone something you know they want to hear. What's not so easy is following up on those easy words and making what you said come to life. It's in taking the words and turning them into actions where most people give up and bail out.
Melyssa Winchester
#56. How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.
Andie MacDowell
#57. This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.
Philip Pullman
#58. If you don't know what you want, and you won't tell me specifics, then I'll tell you what I think you need. You're mine now, Ashleigh. I'm claiming you. I'm claiming Kate too. If you want to be with me then I call the shots. And I've made my first decision.
J.A. Huss
#59. What was it like the first time you saw me?" she asks. "What was it about me that made you want to ask me out? And tell me everything, even the bad thoughts."
I laugh. "There weren't any bad thoughts. Naughty thoughts, maybe. But not bad."
She grins. "Well then tell me those, too.
Colleen Hoover
#60. Tell me what to say. What can I say to make you want me the way I want you?
Veronica Rossi
#61. I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.
Daniel Baldwin
#62. ... because what I want you to tell me, Mother Roberts - and I mean this very seriously - is why have I been in Houston for eight days without anybody offering me some cocaine?
Hunter S. Thompson
#63. There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'
Tyler Joseph
#64. In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#65. If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all
Socrates
#66. I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.
Jodi Picoult
#67. We belong together, Junebug. Tell me what I have to do to make that happen. I'll do anything you want.
Macy Beckett
#68. I think it's neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me
just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, we'd be better off.
Cheryl Strayed
#69. Something you want to tell me?"
"Um ... your scrub top's on inside out?"
"What?" He glances down. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
I shrug. "It was funny.
Lindy Zart
#70. When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who we want to be, how we want people to perceive us. Life, people and the stories they consciously or unconsciously tell inspire me everyday.
Marc Forster
#71. I wish I could tell you what happened, but I can't. Someday I will, but I can't right now and I need you to accept that. Please. And I'm not apologizing to you,because I don't want you to forget what happened and you should never forgive me for it. EVER. Never make excuses for me, Sky.
Colleen Hoover
#72. Tell me about school, NoahNoah," the old man says..."Our teacher made us write a story about what we want to be when we're big," Noah tells him. "What did you write?""I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first.
Fredrik Backman
#73. You can't touch me, I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. Please touch me, is what I want to tell him.
Tahereh Mafi
#74. Yeah. I've met so many people, and they don't really know me. I can't tell them who I am, or what I've lived. Even if I could, I probably wouldn't want to. It's not often I've met a person I really want to know better. But I knew I wanted to know you the moment I set eyes on you.
Allison Van Diepen
#75. What do you want me to do, go shout from the housetops that I am Henry Clinton and I'm here to tell you you're all wet?
Harper Lee
#76. So tell me, Morrison, what kind of Dominant do you want to be?" Dylan asked from above. "The kind that I was born to be. The absolute fucking best.
Ella Dominguez
#77. Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?
Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.
Barbara Hambly
#78. Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
Harlan Coben
#79. Three months is an arbitrary amount of time. We could make it six months, a year? How long do you want it to be? What would make you comfortable? Tell me.
E.L. James
#80. Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'
George Washington Carver
#81. My dear,' said the old men gently, 'I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say. You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really. Stop being so tiresome, and tell me instead what part of the church you want to see. To take you to it will be a real pleasure.
E. M. Forster
#82. You wait up for me I don't wake up for you. Would you like the company or are you sick of me. When your love lets you go you only want love more. Even when love wasn't what you were looking for
Speak slow, tell me love where do we go.
Tegan Quin
#83. Tell us, Margaret, what do you want out of life?" To be loved by a man who makes me want for nothing else.
V. Vaughn
#84. My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.
John Travolta
#85. It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
Bernard Malamud
#86. want you to trust me enough to tell me what's going on with you because if you can't do that then there is no point in us going any further.
Lauren Dodd
#87. He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do.
Sylvia Day
#88. Then I want you to run all of your words backward in your head and listen to them. Then put on my ears and listen to them again, and then tell me what you hear.
-Lydia to Seth
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#89. You can't have an animal in here, Sheen."
"I'm in a wheelchair, man. You gonna tell me I can't have my seeing-eye cat with me? Actually, it can be your seeing-eye cat, since you're blind and all. One of the perks to being a pathetic figure is that I tend to get what I want.
Amy Harmon
#90. I'll tell you what my real dream is. I mean my absolute number one dream that will mean I die a happy man if it happens. I want to see a UFO. They're real. I don't care if you look at me like that. UFO's are a definite fact and I've got to see one soon.
Paul Gascoigne
#91. People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
Louis Zamperini
#92. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?
Jonathan Maberry
#93. What do you want from me? he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
Melina Marchetta
#94. I thought that all magic has its price.'
'Magic does,' Faey said. 'But let us consider this an exchange of knowledge. I'll tell you what you want to know and you'll tell me why you want to know it.
Patricia A. McKillip
#95. What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.
Colbie Caillat
#96. Other children communicate with actions, such as tantrums, yelling, name-calling, and running away. The trick is to disallow this form of expression and encourage verbal communication. "I want to know what you are feeling, but I want to hear you tell me instead of show me.
Henry Cloud
#97. I've heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing
John Marsden
#98. I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.
Liana Liberato
#99. I think ... I should go home soon. Mom and Luke are probably going nuts. What about you?"
He shrugged, a casual lift of one shoulder. "You tell me. When I left Nevernever, I didn't have any plans other than being with you. If you want me around, just say the word.
Julie Kagawa
#100. I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next?
Noah Hawley
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