#told

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#april #cambridge #decided #dna #francis

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#been #could #general #had #high

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#did #i #students #told #wastebasket

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. ↗

— Merce Cunningham

#give #grades #had #i #interested

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ↗

— Bill Dana

#been #cats #days #difficult #had

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#friday #friday night #house #i #junior

Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now. ↗

— Rick Dees

#jam #jimmy #living #me #minneapolis

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#cold #day #i #i write #know

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#attention #bright #depressed #hell #i