Top 100 You About Quotes
#1. If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
Joyce Maynard
#2. I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.
Shonda Rhimes
#3. God, this is weird."
"Oh, I'm sorry - do you have a ghost talking to you about his intentions with your granddaughter?
Heather Davis
#4. I hate it when people insist on wrangling with you about something, then try to stop as soon as they see the arguments are no longer going all their way.
Anne Fine
#5. The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about?
David Mitchell
#6. Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
David Bowie
#7. It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.
Rajneesh
#8. fond of people to stay in the field with the sheep. Well, I've got news for you about people, you big stupid
Jean Gill
#9. Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.
Robin Sacredfire
#10. Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
Benjamin Carson
#11. Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
Mickey Mantle
#12. One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck
#13. And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
Nizar Qabbani
#14. There were many such instances, when expressions of sympathy could not be exchanged. What do you say to someone who is telling you about the rape and murder of virgins - I'm sorry, I feel your pain?
Azar Nafisi
#15. There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#16. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.
Gautam Gambhir
#17. Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.
Sid Meier
#18. All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.
Keith Miller
#19. Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it
Timothy Keller
#20. There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
Stephen King
#21. Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.
Jan Chipchase
#22. Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin
#23. I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
Leon Uris
#24. What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?
John Lennon
#25. The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor. Words float up
Me: "Let me tell you about it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#26. He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.
Nenia Campbell
#27. I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.
Bill Bennett
#28. Ranger slung an arm around my shoulders and kissed me on the top of my head. "Someday I need to talk to you about car care." "I know about car care. I kept a case of motor oil in the back." "That's my girl.
Janet Evanovich
#29. You will close your eyes. And listen carefully . . . . You must learn to listen carefully when people talk to you about their death. We each carry our own death within us, and we feel when it is there.
Celeste Albaret
#30. Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.
Howard Graham Buffett
#31. Integration my undead ass. Did they teach you about the Great American Melting Pot in grade school?" she asked. "Some of us don't like the idea of being melted down and blended into stew for the rest of you to devour.
Jim C. Hines
#32. The wind and the waves will toss you about, but it'll all be worth it.
Marty Rubin
#33. As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#34. There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen.
Dexter Palmer
#35. One of the things nobody tells you about the glamorous job of chaperoning teenage dances is that the shaps are the ones who have to make sure everything's picked up and locked away once the music ends.
Stephen King
#36. Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.
Elaine Stritch
#37. In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.
Mindy Kaling
#38. In closing, I'm not going to try to warn you about the dangers of messing around with the paranormal. I know it won't do any good. Most people (And I speak of myself here too.) have to have that proverbial brick to hit them in the
Melissa George
#39. And the people who say things to you about the way you look and the way you dress, they have nothing more to their lives. That's all they do, and you have something more in you.
Andy Biersack
#40. That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.
The girls of 1929.
Anna Godbersen
#42. If this was another kind of story, I'd tell you about the sea
Junot Diaz
#43. You lied to me!"
"You're going to have to be more specific. What did I lie to you about this time?
Gina Damico
#44. I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#45. They die, but no one's really asked us. No one's asked what we've been through. What we saw. No one wants to hear about death. About what scares them. But I was telling you about love. About my love . . . Lyudmilla
Svetlana Alexievich
#46. I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
Marie Corelli
#47. You are like me, you have more books than you have friends, no matter what Facebook tells you about your social network.
Jason Merkoski
#48. People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.
Walter Mosley
#49. I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.
Rudy Giuliani
#50. In life most things that frighten us are to do with our own heart and its flaws. You'll always be afraid of some things - never free from fear itself. But that's all right. Fear's like pain, it's there in your life to teach you about yourself.
Lisa Ballantyne
#51. There wouldn't be any way I could have jumped into Cup with the success I had without the truck series. I wish I had more time to spend there. There are so many things the truck teaches you about aerodynamics, the professional ranks of racing, and working with a professional team.
Kurt Busch
#52. Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.
Omar Ahmad
#53. Knut, this is Jude. Remember I told you about him? He writes poetry." Knut looked my half-Japanese self up and down. "Haiku?" he guessed. "Gesundheit," I muttered sourly.
J.L. Merrow
#54. Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
Andrea Bocelli
#55. The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.
Patricia Arquette
#56. The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
Lewis Black
#57. The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.
Alex Abreu
#58. Ask successful men or women about their early years in business, and nearly every one will be able to tell you about the first person who showed faith in his or her abilities or offered genuine encouragement.
Cathie Black
#59. So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else.
Meg Rosoff
#60. If you're going to look at me that way, I might need to warn you about me," he says, taking a step toward me. Instinctively, I retreat. One side of his mouth quirks into a wry grin. "Or maybe you already know.
M. Leighton
#61. Now, Neve, are you about to say no to me?' 'Well, it's just that - ' 'Because the word "no" is not in my vocabulary, along with the words "can't" and "Victoria Beckham".
Sarra Manning
#62. I want to tell you about your heart - you've probably been neglecting your heart - and you don't know.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#63. You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it's proof that you're not? Well, it's a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.
Forrest Carr
#64. Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.
Nick Bantock
#65. You don't know who you are; you just know what they've told you about who you are!
Maddy Malhotra
#66. Page 33 "Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm very antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this.
Ray Bradbury
#67. Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
E.W. Howe
#68. It's like what flight attendants tell you about the oxygen masks that plop down in an emergency: First you put yours on, and then you put it on the child next to you. She
Francisco X Stork
#69. let's face it, no one warned you about anything.
Kate Atkinson
#70. This is one symptom of the deliria no one ever tells you about: Apparently the disease turns you into a world-class liar.
Lauren Oliver
#71. What have I told you about trying to sound ingratiatingly cute, Twyla?" she said. The little girl said, "You said I mustn't. You said that exaggerated lisping is a hanging offense and I only do it to get attention.
Terry Pratchett
#72. I'll persuade you to tell me all about what kind of waters you've muddled your feet in, and I'll tell you about the trouble I've led skirmishes into for the past decade.
James L. Rubart
#73. Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
Barrett Foa
#74. The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
Sam Altman
#75. To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually done a tonne of research. And they'll tell you about it from their perspective which is better than doing your own research ...
Christina Ricci
#76. You could just watch your belly grow bigger and no one would be allowed to ask you about it and you would have your baby and a year later you would allow visitors to finally come and meet your little miracle.
Amy Poehler
#77. Did I ever tell you about the time I was working for the I.S. to help feed my family? Matalina had just had another set of quads and things were looking ugly. I had to take a job for hazard pay to babysit this witch no one else would touch. - Jenks
Kim Harrison
#78. All that appearance business is crap, and I'm not even going to be bothered arguing with you about it.
Colleen McCullough
#79. Oh, some day I'll tell you about why I wrote more than 1,500 Gmail filters. They throw away more than 300 emails every day. Every day. It's the best thing I ever did for my productivity.
Robert Scoble
#80. She has a habit of downplaying trouble. I don't suppose she told you about Tony Vance or Sheldon Kaufman? They were a couple of sorcerers in her last crew." Angus shook his head. "Not a word. What happened to 'em?" "I did.
Craig Schaefer
#81. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard
#82. Could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end. Jews and Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.
Anne Frank
#83. Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.
Jonathan Zittrain
#84. Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.
Bill Hicks
#85. Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#86. Peabody, you never cease to amaze me."
"One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers."
"Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime."
"Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.
J.D. Robb
#87. Scene study is isolated. I suppose it's interesting, but I don't think it really teaches you about a throughline. A throughline is something you feel when you do one scene followed by another followed by another.
Glenne Headly
#88. You can't always tell if someone's gay over Twitter, but when he's talking to you about 'Real Housewives,' it's probably OK to assume.
Casey Wilson
#89. In the crime fiction section, you may just find a novel that talks about the place where you're from and speaks to you about your life - or the life yours could have become if a little misfortune had come your way.
Adrian McKinty
#90. Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.
Robert Holdstock
#91. Sport teaches you about commitment and to dedicate yourself. Whether you make it to the top or not, sport gives you great skills that you can use in life.
Jenny Meadows
#92. Are you about finished?" Hazel deadpanned. She looked at me. "He started his period this morning.
Jamie McGuire
#93. What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
Gail Caldwell
#94. Are you about to have sex in my bathroom?"
Without missing a beat, Kellan responded with, "Yes," and started closing the door.
S.C. Stephens
#95. I lied to you about a lot of things," he finally said. She snorted. "But I meant every apology.
Marissa Meyer
#96. Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it's important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.
Jason Mraz
#97. Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
George Bernard Shaw
#98. If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
Ted Cruz
#99. The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.
Chevy Chase
#100. You sure you don't want me to stay? I'll make you coffee and ask you about your day.
Ilona Andrews
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