Quotes About Tell

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.

All frontiers, if there had ever been any, seem suddenly detachable and have been removed, a feeling that others are creating my fate will not leave me for the rest of the day. This… is… not… a… game, I want to shout, but I can't catch my breath though I don't think she can tell.

But as much as he wanted to know the answers, it was against his nature to force someone to tell something she didn't want to. His father had raised him to respect another person's right to keep his own secrets.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

Secrets were safe at the Manor, kept beyond the grave in a devil's bargain to shield the sins of the sinful. No one would tell, ever, about the things that went on there, the weekend-long things, the forbidden things.

Obama and Biden want a bench crammed full of liberal judicial activists, and it's up to the American people to tell them 'no.'

It was great to be in the gym with Kobe. He's so particular about the game and... why and how things work. That's one thing I kind of love about him. If you ask him something, he's going to tell you A, B, C, and D, and how that affects each play.

The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.

You're never going to believe what just walked into the club," Lor told Ryodan. "Tell me to change. Say the word.

Janine smiles. "Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.

You know what else he said?" Anne Marie asked. "Tell me," I said. I didn't want to know, of course, but she was going to tell me anyway, so why not invite in the inevitable, which is why, in the movies, vampires have to be asked inside by their victims and always are.

What'd she want?" Her tone chipper as usual. I couldn't hear any suspicion in it. "She wanted to know where I was." "Why didn't you tell her?" "Because she burned down my house." I said, and then added, "And because I don't know where we are.

Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday. Because you'll be dust on Monday. Because I'll be pulverizing you sometime over the weekend. And the cleaning lady... cleans up... dust. She dusts. And she has weekends off, so... Monday. Right?

The Greek word epos means simply "word" or "story" or "song." It is related to a verb meaning "to say" or "to tell," which is used (in a form with a prefix) in the first line of the poem. The narrator commands the Muse, "Tell me": enn-epe. An epic poem is, at its root, simply a tale that is told.

Like the aristocracy, you can tell a reporter's status by his clothes and manners. The worse they are, the higher up they are

You will tell me what you know now, he said. Or? He said nothing, so I elaborated. See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.

Damn boudas. I tell him he's under siege and he goes to take a nap.

And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot. She raised her hand. Don't. It was awesome, George confirmed. It really was, Jack said. His head exploded.

I was always really worried about the conditions in India, especially with a group of young players. You can sit and you can tell players what it's like to play there, but until you've experienced it, you don't comprehend it.

Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.