Top 534 Tell Quotes

As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.
Robin Hayes
We’re not a political band. We don’t want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
Billie Joe Armstrong
BTS fans – the ‘ARMY’ – tell us about their feelings, failures, passions, and struggles all the time.
RM
People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, ‘You need to write a book because you’ve had a crazy life.’
Mayte Garcia
You have to be confident in who you are and what you're

You have to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, ‘Today is the best I will ever be.’ I’m always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.
Guy Fieri
We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements… We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they’re actually saying, not what they tell you.
Daniel Ek
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.
Mark Zuckerberg
Let me tell you something: I’m a simple person who lives a simple life.
Bill Cowher
Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn’t tell you a joke.
Bob Newhart
If you’re gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don’t do it.
R. Kelly
It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don’t tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o’clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
Bob Saget
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
Keith Richards
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
Nick Saban
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
Jean Chatzky
I’d tell myself to not feel pressure about time, that every moment you invest on watching, exploring, studying and enjoying what you love to do, that all becomes part of becoming what you want to be.
Rose
Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, ‘Well, look, I’m not going to treat you; we’re just not going to talk about it. It’s going to go away.’ You would look at him like he’s crazy. By not talking about racism, it’s not going to go away.
Shannon Sharpe
Don’t tell a woman she’s pretty; tell her there’s no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Jules Renard
I have something called ‘Siwanators,’ and if you’re a Siwanator, you’re strong. You’re powerful. You stand up to the bullies. If you’re a Siwanator, you’re nice. And the way you can tell if someone is a Siwanator is if they have a JoJo bow in.
JoJo Siwa
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
Greta Garbo
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
Adam Jones
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
John Dingell
I’m gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died.
Jimmy Swaggart
I think Canada has a great story, and I’m glad to tell it. And if there’s a moment where the world is paying a little more attention to Canada, well, I think it’s important to try and capitalize on that.
Justin Trudeau
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
Billy Sunday
There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can’t tell my family, just as far as how I’m feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important.
Jonathan Levine
The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that’s why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It’s not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.
Tom Cruise
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Samuel Goldwyn
Tell them to send everything that can fly.
Richard M. Nixon
A car isn’t a classic just because it’s old. To be a classic, a car has to tell us something of its time.
James May
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
George Lucas
Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that’s what I plan on doing with all mine. They’re not necessarily my secrets to tell. I’m the gatekeeper of other people’s secrets.
Drew Lachey
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years reall

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.
David Bowie
Diversity is essential to the success of the news industry, and journalists must include diverse voices in their coverage in order to reach a broader audience. We have stories to tell, but many in our audience have stopped listening because they can tell that we’re not talking about them.
Gwen Ifill
I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.
Angelina Jolie
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson
I’ll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don’t, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that’s nowhere land.
Gary Busey
I’m going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
Gene Wilder
I don’t think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That’s why people write novels.
A. N. Wilson
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
Having had that experience… I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don’t think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.
Tom Selleck
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron Sorkin
My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
Natalie Wood
All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.
Babe Ruth
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
Sitting Bull
Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.
Rihanna
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren Bennis
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred Hitchcock
Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.
Dale Carnegie
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy’s First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
George Edward Woodberry
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.
Richard P. Feynman
Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.
Joe Biden
For me, romance isn’t an over-the-top act. It’s someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I’m making the wrong decision, he’ll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
Thora Birch
Don’t let anyone tell you what you ought to like… Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don’t appeal to me at all.
John Cleese
But it’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
Emma Watson