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- If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it…
- Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to…
- Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
- He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die…
- All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one…
- Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did…
- Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they…
- How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and…
- You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already…
- I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There…
- The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent…
More Tell Quotes
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them,… — Dave Attell
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- 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… — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden