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My father hasn't told me about it but he showed me the straight path
— Fahmid Hassan Prohor
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
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
— Sofia Coppola
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.
— Christopher Meloni
I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.
— Jo Walton
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
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
— David Byrne
As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.
— Hannibal
Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.
— Robert Holdstock
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.
— Evelyn Waugh
...never fully appreciated her before," he told us. "She's strong, like one of these women detectives in books, but kind and compassionate--
— Jacqueline Girdner
Oh, Ron, what's it to you if my schedule's a bit full?" Hermione snapped. "I told you, I've fixed it all with Professor McGonagall.
— J.K. Rowling
Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. 'Beat it, ' I said, 'go sit on a tack!' 'We made you, ' they said. 'Like hell you did, ' I told them.
— Katharine Hepburn
What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
— Stephen Hawking
So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
— Patrick DeWitt
I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone. Serana told Dan, who blushed.
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.
— Billie Holiday
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
Promise was like a precious stone, she told me: hypnotising, but after a while the weight of it could sink you.
— Meg Haston
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
I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.
— Martin Gore
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.
— Bob Proctor
Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.
— George R R Martin
I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.
— Jay London
Mom, how come you never go outside?"
"I told you, I'm a vampire. — Alison Bechdel
"I told you, I'm a vampire. — Alison Bechdel
I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)
— Spike Milligan
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
He flashed a genuinely amused smile. "Oh, Kitten, every single day of my blessed life. — Jennifer L. Armentrout
You remind me of my first concert. The one I told you about on New Year's. You remind me of the feeling of wanting to make something.
— Ava Dellaira
You know my mom told me to stop wearing my heart on my sleeve today and I told her sometimes I have to hang my feelings out to dry...
— Poet On Watch
Jon, could there be honor in a lie, if it were told for a ... good purpose? - Samwell
— George R R Martin
President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.
— Jay Leno
I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.
— Victoria Aveyard
She said I could have a seat on the couch if I wanted to, but I told her I didn't believe in leather, so I stood.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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
At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.
— Tony Benn
That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business.
— John Irving
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
— Marilyn Manson
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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 know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The public always wants to be told.
— Edwin Lefevre
He told her, You are a wise woman.
Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I? — Thea Harrison
Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I? — Thea Harrison
There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.
— Jerry Della Femina
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
Obama once reportedly told his aides, [It] turns out I'm really good at killing people.
— Jeremy Scahill
The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it
— Michael J. Jackson
A Little Birdie
Told Me It's
Your Birthday!
So Enjoy Your
Special Day! — Julie McGregor
Told Me It's
Your Birthday!
So Enjoy Your
Special Day! — Julie McGregor
woman who had not told him or anybody
— Colm Toibin
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
"Florida mud," he answered. "That was one of two true things I told you. — F Scott Fitzgerald
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.
— Philip Pullman
He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical.
— Kerry Greenwood
Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.
— George R R Martin
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
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan
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
Your God speaks of love, bur restricts who you love. I do not wish to be told who I can or cannot love. If I cannot love honestly, then it isn't love.
— Jennis Slaughter
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
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
— Douglas Coupland
Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
— Jaleigh Johnson
I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
— Leonard Cohen
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
— Samuel Johnson
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray
For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.
— Lauren Oliver
Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey
— Thom Yorke
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
I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
— Dan Shechtman
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ...
— Elie Wiesel
I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.
— Bill Cosby
Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.
— Anastasia Hollings
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
- Eric, club dead. — Charlaine Harris
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
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 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
My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.
— Jared Kushner
Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.
— Patsy Cline
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
If someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci's studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian's roof with him at night - I'm on the roof
— Jandy Nelson
Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.
— Rick Riordan
Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
— G.K. Chesterton
Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing ... Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.
— Russell Hoban
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
My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'
— Madchen Amick
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
— Dale Carnegie