Tell Quotes

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

You can tell when you're in a hit.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.