#tells

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong. ↗

— Len Wein

#i #me #simply #something #story

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#competition #conceive #courage #designed #embody

The whole system of society tells you what to do. ↗

— Barry White

#system #tells #whole #you

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#american #american people #been #buck #definition

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman. ↗

— Carey Williams

#change #daughter #farmer #jokes #now

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness. ↗

— Montel Williams

#blackness #country #definition #every #hispanic

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day. ↗

— Debra Winger

#beautiful #day #enough #every #every day

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #inflame #lesbian #nothing #only

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#first #get #going #help #i