Tells Quotes

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.