Quotes About Told

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

To win the hearts of beautiful creatures, your stories must always be told with a joyful face, full of sweetness and love, seen at a distance with kindness.

I remember being told after the 1992 general election that Labour could never win a majority in Britain ever again.

I did have regrets these past six months," he told me quietly. "I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .

When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over

There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.

Albert casually tossed everything back into the water. "Walking along the shore here is like walking on history," he said. "It's like walking on an endless catalogue of lost stories waiting to be told, and they will be lost one day, too. Whatever the case, it's all beneath your feet, right now.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a culture where what is spoken about and what truths are told and what lies are told are objective any more, so my personal feeling is that you have to try to take them on.

What did I tell you?" said the rat, and stuffed a clawful of shrimp into his stupid mouth.

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.

This henbane was used, in this very manner, we are told, in Shakespeare's works, by Hamlet's uncle, when he poisoned Hamlet's father.

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 

You can't be hiding away up here hoping she'll forget. Like I told you, bucko: once a woman gets an idea, it's going nowhere.

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told That's offensive as though those two words constitute an argument.

I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i? ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

Ah, the 'I told you so'", Jace said. "Always a classy move.