Top 100 Tell The Quotes
#1. To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.
Joseph Hooker
#2. Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.
Don Roff
#3. If somebody tell you.... Always you to tell the truth, tell him... in the end both = Same result.
... as for others reasons; I think I said too much.
Deyth Banger
#4. There's always that jumping off place when you're doing a sex scene when you can tell the crew's like, 'OK, it's comin'. At this point, it's actually not a big deal.
Taylor Schilling
#5. Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience. When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough.
Byron Katie
#6. Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had quite doted upon the worthless hussy ...
Jane Austen
#7. I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?
Lou Reed
#8. Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.
Tyler Hamilton
#9. Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor
Why talk of anything else?
Rumi
#10. It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.
Isabel Wilkerson
#11. If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?
Gene Wilder
#12. It's nice when people are passionate about something, and it's always better when they let the subject tell the story, more so then when you can tell people are trying to get their own philosophy into it.
Vince Vaughn
#13. Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
Horacio Quiroga
#14. It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.
David Levithan
#15. Tell the children to do all their business before they come over. I do not change diapers.
Sophie Oak
#16. Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.
Billy Collins
#17. A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#18. The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to tell the American people who they loaned $2.2 trillion to and how much each bank received.
Bernie Sanders
#19. Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.
Lloyd Bentsen
#20. If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.
Randy Pausch
#21. You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.
Auberon Waugh
#22. I don't want to say my biggest mistake
I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.
Britney Spears
#23. Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.
George Meredith
#24. But sharing has its limits. It might make you famous, but chances are it won't earn you a buck. It might find you new people to connect with, but it won't make it any easier to click with them. And it might let you tell the world what's on your mind; but it won't make the world listen.
China Mieville
#25. The clock would be simple if you destroyed all the wheels . . . but it would not tell the time of day. On
David McCullough
#26. Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#27. You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
Katharine Hepburn
#28. I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.
S.A. Tawks
#29. When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.
Newt Gingrich
#31. If this works, it' going to be one of those things that get written down in the history books. He wondered, briefly, what he should say. Oh well. I can always think of something clever later to tell the historians.
"Come on!" He chopped downward, toward the enemy. "Let's get the bastards!
Django Wexler
#32. Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - that you want a girlfriend. You shouldn't even have to say 'Set me up' or 'Introduce me!' If they're good girls, they'll get the hint.
Julie Klausner
#33. Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
Walter Isaacson
#34. That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
Harrison Ford
#35. A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'
Jim Yong Kim
#36. And even if I'd wanted to mourn, four or five million were too many to shed tears over. Tears are more personal than that. We don;t read a news story about twenty thousand dead in an earthquake and weep. at best, we sigh and tell the wife. More often, we shrug and go check our Facebook messages.
Adrian Barnes
#37. I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.
T.I.
#38. To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan
#39. In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#40. When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
Iyanla Vanzant
#41. We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;
John Hope Franklin
#42. If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.
Danny Fox
#43. I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..
Rebecca Wells
#44. You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you
Daniel Black
#45. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.
Betty Smith
#46. I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
Anita Desai
#47. I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.
August Sander
#48. Lie detectors don't work on someone who can't tell the difference between truth and lies.
Joakim Zander
#49. Tell the truth,' Nels said. 'Decide to tell the truth before it's too late.
David Guterson
#50. George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for his leadership and courage to defend the sanctity of life, and to tell the truth at all costs.
Beverly LaHaye
#51. It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
Arthur Balfour
#52. I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.
Lynn Coady
#53. Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.
Ice Cube
#54. Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth then clean up an honest mess P.C. Cast ( Grandma Redbird) ... So wish People would understand this !!
P.C. Cast
#55. Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
#56. A story can tell the truth...but a story can also lie. Stories can bend and twist and obfuscate. Controlling stories is power indeed. And who could benefit most from such a power?
Kelly Barnhill
#57. I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#58. An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.
Tobin Bell
#59. We can't always tell the whole story about ourselves.
Denis Johnson
#60. So much history can be lost if no one tells the story
so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
Alanis Obomsawin
#61. The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
Gautama Buddha
#62. I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
Ted Danson
#63. Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
Henry Hampton
#64. All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.
Mario Bunge
#65. The city's more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.
Orhan Pamuk
#66. You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.
Andy Lau
#67. I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.
Daniel Woodrell
#68. If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
Mary J. Blige
#69. Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.
Jeff Bridges
#70. You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of the leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
Alfred Bester
#71. If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.
Ludiah
#72. Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical.
Dan Gelber
#73. If you tell the same story five times, it's true.
Larry Speakes
#74. If you want ACTION, don't write. Go and tell the guy what you want.
David Ogilvy
#75. What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Pete Townshend
#76. I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.
Lynn Nottage
#77. Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.
Joe Queenan
#78. Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
Marianne Williamson
#79. We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.
Patricia Schroeder
#80. I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
Fidel Castro
#81. Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you"
Lee Brice
#82. Is it normal to live a lie because you're too scared to tell the truth?
Felice Stevens
#83. And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
Fred Frith
#84. A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.
Dacia Maraini
#85. It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.
Raif Badawi
#86. People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
Ingmar Bergman
#87. If you can raise profits by shaving costs on your main product and 90 percent of your customers wouldn't even notice, why not just do it? Because we can tell the difference.
Howard Schultz
#88. Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#90. You can't tell the audience - well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience - that anything they're watching doesn't matter.
Dan Harmon
#91. Is that the end ... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?
C.J. Cherryh
#92. In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I knew I would incur some outrage with 'American Caesars.'
Nigel Hamilton
#93. Q. How many docents does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Two. One to remove the old lightbulb and the other to tell the story behind it.
Ron Brackin
#94. Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.
Peter Lindbergh
#95. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. If you are appalled, he said, then it was a devil who had visited you. If you feel lightened, it was an angel.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#96. The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal ... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.
Jody Williams
#97. The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles:
Show up or choose to be present,
Pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and
Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.
Angeles Arrien
#98. A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
#99. I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,
It is always to leave the best untold."
-from "A Song of the Rolling Earth
Walt Whitman
#100. Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.
Jill Savage
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