Top 1200 Tell Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

The medium is less important than the story we're trying to tell and the funniest way to tell it.

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

You tell me I play like a man, and I'll tell you, 'Hey, thanks.'

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.

My popularity does not derive from me pandering to people. People came to me. I don't tell anyone to follow me on Twitter. I don't tell people to like my Facebook page. I don't tell people to fill the venue. I'm offered to people, and then people come.

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.

Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.