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MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable. — Jim Propp

That's what I have told people who have asked for advice through the years: focus on what is beautiful and pursue that beauty. — Stuart Rojstaczer

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life. — Jason Blum

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you. — Jasper Fforde

A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself. — Wayne W. Dyer

My ultimate goal will be my being told in a Penthouse letter that I can frame. — Alice Cooper

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand. — Brad Garlinghouse

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true. — Michael Wilbon

Being perfect is about being able to look your friend in the eye and know that you didn't let them down, because you told them the truth. — Heidi Ayarbe

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. — Mark Twain

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. — Liane Moriarty

the problem with most brand stories is that they're told by the wrong people. — Bryan Eisenberg

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work. — Brandon Sanderson

He smiled. The ability to drink and not grow drunk - an advantage of pewter that nobody had told him about. There had to be a way to use such a skill. — Brandon Sanderson

took something serious away from it. I told myself I would never get so deep into my cups that I wouldn't be able to play. — Duff McKagan

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate? — Steve Berry

Oh, yeah, this is the shit. I told you that last night. Be better if I had some milk." He took another bite. "Mmm, milk. — J. Lynn

You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That's what the old woman told me, and I listened. — L'Poni Baldwin

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe. — Rolf Harris

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward. — Adam Johnson

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me. — Peter Steele

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes. — Robert Torricelli

You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win. — Julie James

What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas. — Aldo Leopold

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell. (Jace) — Cassandra Clare

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. — Edgar Allan Poe

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before. — Elizabeth Berg

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M Valente

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married. — Camila Alves

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem. — Michael Vick

He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical. — Kerry Greenwood

A source told me that you don't do girlfriends."
"Your source was mistaken. I do my girlfriend quite frequently. — Elena Kincaid

I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too. — Natalie Massenet

I didn't tell you how beautiful he is so you could fall in love with him. I told you so you could appreciate that I'm in love with him. — Marianne Maughan

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel. — Jim Butcher

I can't tell him that I didn't see him until they told me to look. — Ally Condie

What was in the bags?" she asked softly.
"Florida mud," he answered. "That was one of two true things I told you. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow. — Larry Kirshbaum

P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs. — Gary Busey

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I should have told you the minute I saw you that you look beautiful. I do love the way you look tonight. — Robin Bielman

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist. — Simon Wiesenthal

Except for the part where I never told him that I was born a man. — Kia Jones

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that. — Bob Newhart

I wondered what sound he would call it if I told him that saying things like that made me want to spend forever with him. — Megan Squires

Months back when Rashard had got drunk off his ass and decided to spend the night at my crib, I was the one that told Quanie to go take those pictures — Diamond Johnson

Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera! — Groucho Marx

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ... — Elie Wiesel

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans. — Ciro Guerra

Every moment where I should have told him. That he was it. He was my Prince Charming. My White Knight. My Happily Ever After. My every fucking thing. — Jay McLean

I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman. — Jack Whitehall

As soon as I'd told him that Brennan had woken up, he'd wrapped his arms around me and cried. Gut-wrenching, soul-sucking cries. I'd — Sloane Kennedy

Somebody once told me that good friends are like Tootie Pops, if you don't bite them they won't bite you. Erin Swift — Denise Vega

Ah, well, my mother told me that if wishes were fishes, we would all be swimming in riches. Ok, tell me about these two facilities. — Craig Alanson

If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you. — Donna Lynn Hope

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley

So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love. — Paul Monette

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories. — Sophie Kennedy Clark

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' — Tom Robbins

I told my girlfriend that a praying mantis female eats its mate after copulation. She didn't take the hint. — James Floyd

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly. — William Blake

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater

My mom told me that I should not be scared or too cautious," concludes Dimples. "Just do it if you have the guts. If it is correct, it will work. — Joey A. Concepcion

You're such an ass. Has ... anyone ever told you that?"
He flashed a genuinely amused smile. "Oh, Kitten, every single day of my blessed life. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

In a loud voice, he told her that he loved her. O, trembling, was terrified to notice that she answered "I love you," and that it was true. — Pauline Reage

Every kid gets "programmed" by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told. — Brian K. Vaughan

At that moment, Dave would have lifted a house for Jimmy, held it up to his chest until Jimmy told him where to put it down. — Dennis Lehane

I've been in that void,' she told me once. 'Don't you ever give in to it — Melina Marchetta

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't. — Dolores Huerta

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes. — Trina Schart Hyman

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. — Marie De France

Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid. — Arthur Conan Doyle

President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed. — Jay Leno

People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, 'We can do better.' — Mike Pence

Confidence," he told us, "is the stuff that turns thoughts into action. — Anonymous

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. — Zadie Smith

That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business. — John Irving

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do. — Billie Holiday

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing. — George R R Martin

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?
- Eric, club dead. — Charlaine Harris

There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing. — Jerry Della Femina

If we're told that human ain't the highest among creatures,
then it'd be difficult to raise human dignity into current level. — Toba Beta

My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever. — Jennifer Lopez

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton] — Don Draper From 'Mad Men'

Is there so much suffering, so much death? I was told that God's ways are incomprehensible, and that in many cases, a Job-like humility — James Wood

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me. — Haley Joel Osment

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight. — Jill Scott

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do? — Barry Deutsch

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there. — Mo Ibrahim

That's pretty. He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name. — George R R Martin

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me. — Dan Shechtman

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true. — Barack Obama

A friend had told him that a man carried his pain like a tortoise carried his shell. — Anonymous

I've never really been told my game reflects like I'm from Los Angeles. I'm always told that I have more of an East Coast type game. — Brandon Jennings

Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick. — Jerry O'Connell

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me. — Joe Theismann

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no. — Anne Tyler