Best They Tell Lines
395 They Tell quotes by 330 unique authors
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Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just…
— Jack Welch
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Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but…
— Ralph W. Moss
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When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long,…
— Richard Donner
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The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.
— Tina Howe
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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
— Ben Okri
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A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet.…
— Charles Manson
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
— John Ruskin
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I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
— Cecily von Ziegesar
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Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a…
— Alexander Smith
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself,…
— Adam Savage
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I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a…
— Zohra Sehgal
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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that…
— Virginia Woolf
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They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that…
— Malcolm X
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You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then…
— Andy Warhol
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
— Harold Bloom
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I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight…
— Don DeLillo
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There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able…
— Richard MacDonald
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered…
— Bennett Cerf
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
— Dorothy Parker
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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told…
— Simon Hoggart
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and…
— Andrew Greeley
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a…
— Youssou N'Dour
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