Tell Quotes

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.