Top 100 Them What Quotes
#1. Her eyes widened. "You showed them what you are?"
"Aye. We put on quite the show. Shifted from stone, played our unique blend of music, and then flew into the air when the concert was over.
Lisa Carlisle
#2. I became interested in building furniture, because I couldn't find pieces I really loved for myself and my clients. I picked stuff up from the street, and tweaked those pieces to make them what I really wanted. It became a career!
Jeremiah Brent
#3. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton Jr.
#4. This is me telling you, you are amazing and beautiful. You are doing so much right! The children are watching so show them. Show them what it looks like to feel your own worth and celebrate your skills.
Tsara Shelton
#5. People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?
Thomas Sowell
#6. My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?
Frederick Lenz
#7. Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.
Pearl Cleage
#8. I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.
Oscar Wilde
#9. You're clear, Mr. Duke." Grins from both of them. What could Felix possibly be suspected of smuggling, a harmless old thespian like him? It's the words that should concern you, he thinks at them. That's the real danger. Words don't show up on scanners.
Margaret Atwood
#10. I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?
Richard Stallman
#11. As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#12. But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering
Cassandra Clare
#13. He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but he read novel after novel and was disappointed:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#14. My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.
Roberto Cavalli
#15. You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
Adolph Green
#16. When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."
Etgar Keret
#17. I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.
Jessa Crispin
#18. I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
Bill Moyers
#19. Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
Jack Welch
#20. You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.
Richard Masur
#21. I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.
Steven Wright
#22. If you do not like people, you will not take the time to get to know them, and if you don't get to know them, you will have no idea what scares them, what inspires them, what motivates them.
Bo Schembechler
#23. He kept telling and I kept repeating "I Know" sometimes people doesn't need answers, they just need you to hear them what they say, make them that they are heard, Vijay was like that, he doesn't need any one sympathizing to him, he just needed people to listen to him.
Shaikh Ashraf
#24. How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach
#25. There are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.
George Eliot
#26. That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J.M. Coetzee
#27. There is a great way to find out what people want; simply ask them what they want.
Unknown
#28. Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
Tom Ford
#29. If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.
Van Morrison
#30. You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team
Patrick Dixon
#31. I wanted to look calm, and to let them know that they could not demoralize us. I had no fear or sense of humiliation, only contempt for them. What had turned people into monsters? What
Jung Chang
#32. Trash bags are among my favorite consumer products. I wish I had invented them. What a racket. People buy them, take them home, and throw them away. Let's see Bill Gates top that.
Gary Reilly
#33. Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
Jimmy Johnson
#34. I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.
George Packer
#35. For profits think, "We've got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they're worth, and put them into their daily solutions. " Apply the Who to the What.
Jeff Henderson
#36. I don't want to make people mad. I just ... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?
Brandon Sanderson
#37. Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.
Amy Heckerling
#38. I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect ...
A. D. Patel
#39. Fleetingly, unnervingly, I understand what he's saying but cannot accept a world that is so brutally black and white. Murder, rape and torture are the apparatus of terrorists, not of civilized societies. If we become like them, what hope do we have?
Michael Robotham
#40. There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he'd heard of the red thread of fate: that an invisible scarlet thread bound certain people, and however tangled it became, it could not and would not break.
Cassandra Clare
#41. I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.
Evel Knievel
#42. Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
Benny Blanco
#43. I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife."
Tell them what?"
That you and I were outwitted by a ropma."
That would be shamful."
Girl, we could never live it down.
Donita K. Paul
#44. But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
Jodi Picoult
#45. Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.
Lawrence Lessig
#46. I don't like to be overly directing people either. I tell them what I want and I tell them when it's wrong. I tell them no, that's not what I want. I want it more like this or more like that. I'm pretty direct with everyone, and I treat everyone the same which might be good.
Julie Delpy
#47. This all has got to be, patently, the most unbelievable, the most ridiculous story I have ever heard. Somehow coming from your mouth, it has the ring of truth, but I doubt anyone would believe me if I told them what happened today.
Haruki Murakami
#48. Behind every person there lies a story which makes them what they are. Many a time, the story isn't known to anybody.
Toffee
#49. But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.
Jeffrey Jones
#50. I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.
Raekwon
#51. I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.
Sebastiao Salgado
#52. It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.
Mo Ibrahim
#53. If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
William Bennett
#54. Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#55. Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.
T.D. Jakes
#56. The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ...
Thorstein Veblen
#57. You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
Diana Vreeland
#58. In fact, that's largely what it means to be loving. You can hold for them what they cannot yet hold. You can transform for them what they cannot yet transform. You do that by not returning their negativity and fear in kind, as most people will do.
Richard Rohr
#59. I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
#60. Everyone hopes to go through life and find their burning bush that tells them what they're here for. Some never find it. And some find their burning bush goes away with a little prescription cream.
Erika Lopez
#61. A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.
James Cameron
#62. People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?
Eric Davis
#63. Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.
George Carlin
#64. The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
Jane Smiley
#65. Show them what a shadowhunter is made of; show them you aren't afraid
Cassandra Clare
#66. Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
Ernest Mandel
#67. I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.
Kage Baker
#68. I definitely do not want to police every girl out there, or tell them what they can and cannot do, but I know that God will do that. And God wants to be in their life and be in control of their actions and allow him to guide them through their life.
Heather Veitch
#69. The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.
Richie Benaud
#70. In college, there aren't many guys like that, and why would there be? When girls just give it away for nothing? I mean, I can understand why you'd sleep with someone if you love them, but if you barely know them? What's the point? It just cheapens it.
Nicholas Sparks
#71. One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.
Jill Flint
#72. People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.
Chuck Feeney
#73. I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
Frank Gehry
#74. It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer.
Vince Staples
#75. I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I'm tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think.
Chris Colfer
#76. I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.
Kenny Loggins
#78. It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
Harrison Ford
#79. How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#80. I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.
Maddox
#81. They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.
Agatha Christie
#82. I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.
Jessica Chastain
#83. And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you're marching towards. Everyone knows what you're against; show them what you're for.
Andrea Gibson
#84. I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
Jack LaLanne
#85. As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
Eli Roth
#86. They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again.
Danielle Steel
#87. Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.
Julie Andrews
#88. We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.
Shaquille O'Neal
#89. Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
William Shakespeare
#90. I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.
Greg Smith
#91. Zed : Penguins, such fascinating creatures, but I didn't know you were studying them. What class is that you're taking?
Sky: The 'we-stupid-looking-creature-should-stick-together' class.
Joss Stirling
#92. When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.
Paul Strisik
#93. It's just as well," she thought. "If I told them what I really think, they'd shit roses.
K. Ford K.
#94. I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do.
Oliver Sacks
#95. We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!
Richard Trumka
#96. I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.
Diane Wakoski
#97. I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?
Rabindranath Tagore
#98. The thing to hold onto, though, during the tough first year, is that you can make a real and genuine difference to your children's lives. And at some point in the future they may look back and remember you as someone who really mattered to them. What other career could offer such a wonderful reward?
Sue Cowley
#99. If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.
Ezra Miller
#100. Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
James Dobson
