Quotes About Told

But no book of ours would ever just tell you a thing. The Quest would spoil, just as if you added the wrong chemical to a medicine. It would turn poisonous and rancid. A Quest is not followed, it is engineered. Now, in you go.

Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.

I didn't plan to make 'Mulk' or 'Article 15.' Nor did I anticipate that 'Mulk' would be seen as a new beginning in my career. It's just that these were stories that had to be told.

For example, a myth faithfully told (and not watered down for children or to be socially acceptable) carries more powerful spiritual energy than a scholarly discourse about the myth.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

The gospel is good news—a message to be proclaimed, a truth to be taught, a word to be spoken, and a story to be told.

Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.

Sometimes people get fairly obscure just for the creative license of it, and that can backfire. Iconic stories are iconic for a reason, and there are so many incredible, iconic history stories that have not been told that we don't need to go too deep in the well yet.

The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral." "Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do

But his heart, strangely enough, told him something else.

But Dustfinger must be told what happens to him, she thought, he must. Then he'll understand why he really can't go back. And all the same, she thought next, he'll still be homesick. Homesick forever.

The world around them was as still as if it had used up all the words, as if all the tales there were to tell in this world had now been told.

Then he told her the budget of the day. His life-story, like an Arabian Nights, but much duller, was told night after night to his mother. It was almost as if it were her own life.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

The physician nodded as if that had told him something, although Don suspected it was just a thing done mechanically. You hear enough stuff you don't understand, maybe you just start nodding. Oh, sure, I got you. Makes perfect sense.

Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told the way they naturally need to be told.

There's a lack of diversity amongst executives in the position of greenlighting a film who feel that their stories are being told. If there's a diversity at the executive level, then we'll have diversity of the storytelling process.

I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

I don't like DVD extras. No. Especially when they do things like put out alternative endings? I find all of that a little bizarre, because there should only be one ending. I don't like to be told, 'Oh, we could have had it this way,' for the director's cut.

Cool! I don't have to be told twice. I'm a monster not a Morin. He moved quickly back to the bed.

Heard it," I say. "You were supposed to stop me," he says, clearly exhausted after the telling. "How many breaths do I have left? You don't want me to waste them on twice-told jokes, do you?