Told Quotes

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

I told my whole life story in my book.

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

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

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.