Told Quotes

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

I have not told half of what I saw.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.