A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
Madeleine L'Engle

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
Michael Kinsley

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
Frank Howard Clark

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Edmond Rostand

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
Morris Kline

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri Baraka

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Tommy Cooper

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
Alberto Salazar

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.
Alec Issigonis

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
Janice Dickinson

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
Nancy Banks Smith