Quotes About Told

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

He may have been told that a rakish grin works wonders. If so, he'd been getting bad advice.

And Pierre's soul was dimly but joyfully filled not by the story itself but by its mysterious significance: by the rapturous joy that lit up Karataev's face as he told it, and the mystic significance of that joy.

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.

Yesterday a women told me that she was a medium but I'm pretty sure that she was an extra large.

Undauntable," his father said in his icy voice. The room was empty now except for the two of them. "That man described a dragon whose scales seem to match the ones you wear. I think it's time you told me where you've been getting them.

Vella looked around. This is really a revolting place, Yarblek, she told him. You've been spending too much time with Porenn, he said. You're starting to get delicate. How would you like to have me gut you? she offered. That's my girl.

I freely told you, all the wealth I had Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman.

We fell into our roles. Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy. The latter word only sounds worse than the former. He disliked being told what to do. I disliked being pushed further into the shadows and speaking only through him.

You didn't hear the story I told," he goes on. "A shame. It featured a handsome boy with a heart of stone and a natural aptitude for villainy. Everything you could like.

We know about your brother. He called and told us himself. Said to imagine Faerieland like an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. I told him it was more like an exclusive boarding school in hell.

would have to be told about this, that Liam would have anything to do with it, or be in any way affected. Liam, who was upstairs right now,

never, ever told you I was classy. Not ever. I fucked you on our first date. What on earth made you think I was classy?

I want to say something," I told her. "It's important." "Under these circumstances," she said, with a dark grin, "one wouldn't really expect unimportant, now, would one?

Of course I'd be happy to give you my opinion because it increases the odds of me being able to say, I told you so in the future.

The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told.

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

My father once told me love is magic, sir.

Surely if one doesn't find sex tiresome in life, it won't be tiresome in fiction,' said the Junior Dean. 'I do find it tiresome in life,' Dr Matthews replied. 'Or rather, I find other people's concern with it tiresome. One is told about it and told and told!

Since coming home to Oxford after that strange adventure, they had told no one about it, and exercised the most scrupulous care to keep it a secret; but sometimes, and more often recently, they simply had to get away from each other.

It maybe wasn't the best story in the world, but, as the mouse had told him on more than one occasion, it wasn't the worst either.

when he returned he told

I don't suppose this gate's been opened for years." "Why hasn't somebody bought it?" Barbara wanted to know. "Ghosts," replied Mr. Pinthorpe tersely. "At least, that's what I heard. Shouldn't have told you that, I don't suppose." "I'm not frightened of ghosts," said Barbara stoutly.

What would you say if I told you we were lost?' says Guthrie suddenly, in a conversational tone. I reply instantly that I should be extremely angry, and cancel his pilot's certificate. 'Well, I told you the Little People would be angry,' he says deprecatingly