Tell Quotes
17876 quotes by 9002 authors
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
— Pietro Aretino
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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to…
— Chinua Achebe
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What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.
— Dave Attell
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds…
— David Attenborough
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
— David Attenborough
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I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was…
— Chinua Achebe
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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction;…
— Margaret Atwood
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
— Margaret Atwood
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to…
— Margaret Atwood
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
— Alfred Austin
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and…
— Irving Babbitt
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I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about…
— Sebastian Bach
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Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.
— Michele Bachmann
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
— Francis Bacon
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I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story…
— Kevin Bacon
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It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
— Arthur Baer
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left…
— Russell Baker
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