Tells Quotes

In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.