Tell Quotes

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn't tell her but because I'd done it in the first place.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

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.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.