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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
John Gay

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
James Whistler

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
Thomas Friedman

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
Buffalo Bill

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.
Maureen O'Hara

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.
Stephen Harper

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
Walter Cronkite

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
Greta Garbo

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
Greta Garbo

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
Jack Nicholson

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
Bruno Mars

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam