Told Quotes

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

I can't remember ever being told how to ride.

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.