Tells Quotes

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the 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.

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.