Tell Quotes

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

People always tell me I have a lot of guy energy.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

You can tell when you're in a hit.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.