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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
Harvey Fierstein

Different, Through, Play

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov

God, Able, Making

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Robert H. Schuller

Good, Person, Within

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
Ani DiFranco

Love, Trying, Able

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling

Children, Why, Often

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Country, America, Place

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson

Love, Work, Truth

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin

Morality, Taste

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
Jim Carrey

Funny, Stupid, Parents

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
P. J. O'Rourke

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Theodor Adorno

Someone, Lie, Cannot

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
Charles Stanley

God, Morning, Sunday

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling

Mind, Him, Seven

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!
William Wallace

Free, Rest, England

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Sean Lennon

Love, Good, Failure

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Good, Happy

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Old, Matter, While

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
Armstrong Williams

Greatest, Real, After

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
Charles Stanley

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre

God, Men, Truth

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Andy Warhol

Funny, Mean, Everything

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Colin Powell

Congress, Ask, Worse

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams

Change, Words, Matter

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler

Writing, Doubt, Him

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
Barbara Kingsolver

Off, Dog, Water

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
Greta Garbo

Yourself, Heart, Person

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
Elayne Boosler

Wrong, Married, Won

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Danica McKellar

Great, Career, Matter

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