#told

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #told




Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?


Richard Pryor


#been #called #died #everyone #ex-wife

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!


Philip Pullman


#basic #british #education #english #entire

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.


Dan Quayle


#beat #better #bobby #cannot #defense

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.


Sam Raimi


#dress #father #for the people #forgotten #i

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.


Sam Raimi


#because #believed #better #blood #came

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.'


Mary Lynn Rajskub


#audition #been #beginning #called #coolest

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!


Helen Reddy


#girlfriends #going #here #hollywood #i

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.


Helen Reddy


#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful

And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them.


Lynn Redgrave


#anywhere #before #else #i #learn

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.


Henry Reed


#another #comfortable #dream #dreams #feel