Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.
I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Delia: [talking to a workman] If you tell me what you do I'll tell you why my husband will fire you.
I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
Emperor Meiji: Tell me how he died. Algren: I will tell you how he lived.
William Wallace: Go back to England and tell them there that Scotland's daughters and her sons are yours no more. Tell them Scotland is free.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would want to be the first to tell you who criticized you.
I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.
Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.
To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.
I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.
