Told Quotes

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.