#tells

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. ↗

— Alan Watts

#efforts #egos #feel #futile #his

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#band members #complaint #cuban #grain #his

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#down #either #every #every time #everything

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. ↗

— Kit Williams

#advertising #human #instinct #listen #makes

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane. ↗

— Chuck Yeager

#airplane #anybody #anything #believe #especially

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#character #circumstance #communicating #content #deal

Music tells no truths. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#tells #truths

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#built-in #contradictions #different #different angles #many

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#categories #congressional #dramatically #federal #federal spending

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear. ↗

— Lori Loughlin

#am #because #designer #fashion #fashion designer