Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
Source: Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns
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“Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
“I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.”
Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist
“I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
May 1849: This is a remark Emerson wrote referring to the unreliability of second hand testimony and worse upon the subject of immortality. It is often taken out of proper context, and has even begun appearing on the internet as "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" or sometimes just "I hate quotations".
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 32 : Morning
Context: One of the ghosts — an old woman — beckoned, urging her to come close.
Then she spoke, and Mary heard her say:
"Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories."
That was all, and then she was gone. It was one of those moments when we suddenly recall a dream that we’ve unaccountably forgotten, and back in a flood comes all the emotion we felt in our sleep. It was the dream she’d tried to describe to Atal, the night picture; but as Mary tried to find it again, it dissolved and drifted apart, just as these presences did in the open air. The dream was gone.
All that was left was the sweetness of that feeling, and the injunction to tell them stories.
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.”
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian
Source: Marx in Soho: A Play on History
“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director
Source: Viola in Reel Life
“What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.”
Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Variant: I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.””
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
“It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Genevieve
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him please to give up painting.”
Edouard Manet (1832–1883) French painter
spoken to Claude Monet about Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1874), as quoted by John Rewald, The History of Impressionism, Vol.1 (1961).
1850 - 1875
“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”
Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”
Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer
Source: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
“The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist
Source: Slightly Wicked
“Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.”
Charlie Huston book Joe Pitt Casebooks
Every Last Drop, Character: Joe Pitt (narration)
Joe Pitt Casebooks
“Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.”
Connie Brockway (1954) American writer
Source: The Bridal Season
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”
Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming
Source: Brown Girl Dreaming
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Simon to Clary, pg. 332
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”
Alice Walker book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 152
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) French lawyer, politician and writer
Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. <br class="br"> Aphorism #4 http://books.google.com/books?id=enUTAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Dis-moi+ce+que+tu+manges+je+te+dirai+ce+que+tu+es%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage, Physiologie du Goût (1825)
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Tessa Gray, to Clary Fray, pg. 716
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: I feel a kinship with you, too, you who have lost both brother and father. I know you have been judged and spoken of as the daughter of Valentine Morgenstern, and now the sister of Jonathan. There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let people decide who you are. Decide for yourself. That freedom is not a gift; it is a birthright. I hope that you and Jace will use it.
“How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous
“Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.”
Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary
Source: Bridget Jones's Diary
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
As quoted in Esquire, Vol. 76 (1971), also in Truman's Crises : A Political Biography of Harry S. Truman (1980) by Harold Foote Gosnell, p. 9; sometimes paraphrased: Being a politician is like being a piano player in a whorehouse.
“… lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”
Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer
Source: All These Things I've Done
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words http://www.fullbooks.com/Beethoven-the-Man-and-the-Artist-as-Revealed2.html by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
Source: The Arkadians
“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
Holly Black book White Cat
Source: White Cat
