Tell Quotes · Page 68

I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.

— Bipasha Basu

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live…

— Tom Petty

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them…

— Ira Glass

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

— David Green

I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay…

— Edmund White

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

— Emily Robison

Every time I tell a joke it's different somehow.

— Josh Blue

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney…

— Cindy Sheehan

For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me…

— Bruce Vilanch

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that…

— Joe Montana

I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years.

— Jon Hamm

We don't typically use music. We don't manipulate our audience into what we think it should feel. We tell the truth. That's…

— Shawn Hatosy

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its…

— Richard Holbrooke

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

— Teller

If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge…

— Taylor Mali

Don't let anyone tell you no - don't care about what anyone else thinks.

— EJ Johnson

When people tell me that I'm a hothead, I have one response, 'You got a problem with that?'

— Steve Schirripa

President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow…

— John Thune

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper…

— Michael Leunig

I tell everybody take it one game at a time.

— Lonzo Ball

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self…

— James Gleick

The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'

— Renee Ellmers

Crime does pay, it pays well. But what they don't tell you is you have to pay it all back with interest.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell…

— Bob Newhart

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the…

— Per Petterson

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

— Tom Stoppard

Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.

— Justin Gaethje

You can tell everything from the eyes.

— Jeff Buckley

I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots…

— Miranda Lambert

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able…

— Kevin Mitnick

We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he…

— Darius Rucker

I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody…

— Beck

Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting…

— Greg Behrendt

I don't need polling to tell me what are the issues that matter to people.

— Katie Hill

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I…

— Len G. Murray

If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that…

— Cilla Black

It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of…

— Kimberly Elise

I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a…

— Sia

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

— Marco Tempest