How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de Montaigne

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
Marilyn vos Savant

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler

Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Bertolt Brecht

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Nancy Reagan

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.
Dolley Madison

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Golda Meir

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
Robert Benchley

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Demosthenes

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.
Britney Spears

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
Chief Joseph

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
Spike Lee

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
Spike Lee

Tell them to send everything that can fly.
Richard M. Nixon