Tell Quotes

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.