Tell Quotes

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.