Tell Quotes

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.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.