Quotes 161 till 180 of 652.
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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
Source: As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption -
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
Source: Othello I, 1 -
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
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I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
Source: Al de mooie paarden (1992) 197 -
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
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I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
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I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
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I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.
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I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.
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I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.
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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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