The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
I’m an independent type. No one tells me what to do.
Quite simply, if someone tells you often that they’re dreaming of, or thinking about, you, it means you’re someone they see as a big part of their life. When you’re in their head, it means you’re also pretty close to their heart.
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.
To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.
In Tagalog, we call undocumented people ‘TNT,’ which means tago ng tago, which means ‘hiding and hiding.’ So that’s literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you’re on your own.
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
I think a song that’s got something to say. I’m not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don’t last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.
Every year, my father comes by and samples the chremslach – like quality control – and tells me how they taste just like his mother’s.
I’m hoping that I’ll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.
It’s exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That’s really kind of sweet!
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there’s an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story.
We’ve all had that experience where we hear a song that we’ve liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it’s about, and you’re often disappointed.
Floyd has done a lot for me financially and has taught me a lot about business. He did great in making money during his career and he tells me a lot of what he’s working on.
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It’s the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
The best moment in ‘Masoom’ comes when the boy tells him that he knows he’s his father.
If you walk out of the house and think you feel great, or if someone tells you that you look amazing, believe it and just say thank you.
For every single person who’s struggled with depression, there’s this weird part of your brain that tells you you’re the only person who’s ever felt like that, even if you know for a fact it’s not true.
For me, it is always part of my holiday to go and work my way along the shelf in the local artisan bakery with its breads, savoury tartlets, pastries and cakes. It is soul food: one of those things that tells you about a place and the history of a place and its people.
Society tells you that when you’re old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
You can’t even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.
Growing up in a system that tells you just because of your skin colour you are not good enough – you learn at a very young age to toughen up.
I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don’t subscribe to that perspective, not because there’s something inherent in the text that tells me it’s a religion of peace.
Once you achieve a level of success… you learn, something tells you, ‘Man this ain’t even for you.’ You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
Your face tells a story and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.
Doing a show eight times a week is kind of like doing yoga or tai chi. A vinyasa is the same every single time you do it, but depending on how you’re feeling, it tells you a lot about what’s happening in your life.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Evolution isn’t just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It’s an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.
No one should be forced to violate one’s conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.
My dad knows the business, and he tells me I’ve got to do what’s best for me.
It’s hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel. It’s hard to find the material that tells a story of a Latin or European Spanish guy that is not a bad guy.
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
Anything I do in life, the first person I share it with is my elder brother. He always tells me the way to take it forward.
When somebody tells you they’re not very smart, they’re saying exactly the opposite.
Anything where we’re the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to ‘chill out’ and not take things so seriously. She will say: ‘Go and have a massage.’
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you’re not the first person in a place.
‘Atlanta’ is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don’t deserve to have them.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
I can’t tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don’t really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.
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.
The presence of a Jew in any movement no more guarantees it to be innocent of antisemitism than guilty. And that applies to anti-Zionism, too. Anti-Zionist Jews exist, but that tells one nothing about anti-Zionism.
If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.
You don’t eat a painting of an apple; you don’t find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.
There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it’s often about itself.
Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.
If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we’re in a different, riskier market now.
Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?
