I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
Then why are we being shot at? (Syd) ’Cause the sonofabitch can’t tell time. (Steele)
Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.
You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I'll tell you why. He doesn't exist.
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.
So when you think you're the only one who can't find love in this world, tell yourself there's another one who's waiting for you somewhere.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
An economist is a man that can tell you. . . what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won
How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can see its personal meaning for him, if I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him, then I will be releasing potent forces of change in him.
We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?