tell Quotes

“Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.”

“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.”

“I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.”

“I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.”

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

“I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.”

“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”

“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

“How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?”

“My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.”