All Quotes

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
‐‐ Vance Packard

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.
‐‐ Lawrence Wright

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
‐‐ Robert Wise

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.
‐‐ Todd Rokita

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
‐‐ Shonda Rhimes

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.
‐‐ Tim Federle

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.
‐‐ Lawrence Taylor

You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.
‐‐ Andrea Riseborough

You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at you and say, 'Well, how can you tell me not to do that when you were there doing it yourself?' Or supposedly were doing it yourself. I think you must let everyone live their life the way they have to.
‐‐ Ronnie James Dio

You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.
‐‐ Gary Ross

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.
‐‐ Andrew J. Bernstein

You can't test courage cautiously.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.
‐‐ George Lois

You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.
‐‐ Robert Patrick

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
‐‐ Ethan Embry

You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.
‐‐ James Hansen

You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
‐‐ Patrick McGoohan

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.
‐‐ Cissy Houston

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.
‐‐ John Twelve Hawks

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
‐‐ Joe Moore

You can't trust actors.
‐‐ Emma Roberts

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.
‐‐ Nick Cave

You can't trust anybody with power.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
‐‐ Bob Geldof

You can't trust the internet.
‐‐ Nicollette Sheridan

You can't trust very many people.
‐‐ George Best

You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
‐‐ Iris Apfel

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.
‐‐ James Hansen

You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.
‐‐ Tim Conway

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.
‐‐ David Dinkins

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
‐‐ Bill James

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.
‐‐ Isla Fisher

You can't underestimate rest. Sometimes in tennis we don't realize that to rest your body is as important as it is to practice. We are traveling so much, all year, in different conditions, different courts, different surfaces, different balls - so we always have to adapt.
‐‐ Stanislas Wawrinka