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Quotes About Told

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
~ Julian Barnes
Listening . . . means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
~ Mardy Grothe
I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
~ Samuel Beckett
The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.
~ John McGahern
I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.
~ Jitendra Kumar
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
~ N. T. Wright
There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.
~ Charles Soule
The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
~ Samuel Beckett
Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.
~ Samuel Richardson
Phineas himself, it may be here said, was six feet high, and very handsome, with bright blue eyes, and brown wavy hair, and light silken beard. Mrs. Low had told her husband more than once that he was much too handsome to do any good.
~ Anthony Trollope
Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
to Camulodunum and told me the story. The others were not
~ Simon Scarrow
Or call up him that left half toldThe story of Cambuscan bold.
~ John Milton
I was a child. It was an accident. It wasn't my fault. *Why is there so much red?* Not understanding. But I understand now. I'm told. *Where's Lola????* But I've never told. I was four years old. *WHY IS THERE SO MUCH RED? WHY IS THERE SO MUCH RED?*
~ Barry Lyga
We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.
~ Ken Thompson
No, I've never had any interest in coaching, probably because I hated being told what to do when I was a player so I wouldn't like to be lecturing others now.
~ Matt Le Tissier
But that is another story and shall be told another time.
~ Michael Ende
It was with much satisfaction that I recognized the wisdom of having told this candid gentleman, in the beginning, that my name was Smith.
~ Mark Twain
I told myself firmly that it was just a feeling, the echo of an anxiety. I could overcome it, just as I would overcome everything else.
~ Jojo Moyes
It was one of the few stories we told the same way.
~ Gillian Flynn
As Seward did not understand the reference, he did not ask for an explanation. In any case, he had a constitutional dislike of being told things that he did not know, as opposed to ferreting them out.
~ Gore Vidal
don't want you anywhere near this story. It's too dangerous. I don't get why you and the other Narrators don't want this story to be told. Draculaura and Frankie will do whatever they're going to do whether we narrate it or not.
~ Shannon Hale
We told you about our first time," Phil coaxed. "You didn't tell me anything. I was there. In a sleeping bag across the room desperately trying to mind my own business. But you, sir, are a screamer.
~ Shelly Laurenston