Tell Quotes

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.

I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

In-N-Out is incredible, but don't tell coach I've been going there. He would flip out and put some curse on me.

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.