Tells Quotes

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.