Quotes with tell-tales

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  • Peter Ackroyd Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.
    Source: London: The Biography (2003)
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Bill Hader Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Joni Mitchell Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Eisler Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Barbara Kingsolver 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
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Paul Auster Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Robert Lynd Surely it is better to tell the truth behind people's backs than never to tell it at all.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Francis Bacon Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Beau Willimon Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • William Lloyd Garrison Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • W. Clement Stone Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Carl Sandburg Tell him to be a fool every so often
    and to have no shame over having been a fool
    yet learning something over every folly.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
    Source: Cool Tombs (1918)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • A. E. Housman Tell me not here, it needs not saying,
    What tune the enchantress plays
    In aftermaths of soft September
    Or under blanching mays,
    For she and I were long acquainted
    And I knew all her ways.
    Source: Last Poems (1922) No. 40, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ayn Rand Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.
    Source: Atlas Shrugged (1957)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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