Tells

Famous quotes containing the word tells:

“If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“My son and daughter tell me where they are in very different ways. I know where my son is because I hear him. I know where my daughter is because she tells me.”
—Anonymous Father. Raising a Daughter by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium, ch. 1 (1994)

“Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)