Once Told Me Quotes

#1. I knew that Malcolm X had an almost fanatical obsession about time. "I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else , for this type is not time-conscious," he had once told me.

Malcolm X

#2. A wise man once told me that you can't change what's happened but you can damn sure change what's yet to come.

Vicki Green

#3. Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.

Heather Hemmens

#4. You once told me that we're here to eat all the good Mexican food we can," I reminded him, "and when we've had our fill, it's time to move on.

Dean Koontz

#5. A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree!

P.D. Cain

#6. I learned my work ethic from the best. God and family first, then work hard at whatever I do, because someone once told me that the only difference between try and triumph is a little umph." Her

Lisa Harris

#7. Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.

Ginni Rometty

#8. My chauffer once told me that I would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up the two of us were still on a tiny island surrounded by man-eating crocodiles, and, as I'm sure you can understand, I didn't feel any better about it.

Lemony Snicket

#9. I will tell you something my father once told me. The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself ... The brave man loves other men first and himself last. (From Meyer's The Son)

Phillipp Meyer

#10. People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.

T. Harv Eker

#11. Come on," I say. "Dance with me now." "I didn't realize you danced." "I don't," I say. "But someone wise once told me that for the right woman, you've gotta be willing to do anything.

J.M. Darhower

#12. A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself.

Wayne W. Dyer

#13. Warlord, you once told me I'd always know what you're thinking. What are your thoughts now?"
"Partly, I'm thinking that I might shame myself in my trews, just from the feel of you next to me.

Kresley Cole

#14. Someone once told me that digging up the past has two sides: The pro is that you remember things you had forgotten about. Unfortunately, the con is the exact same thing. That may scare some people away, might force them to always be moving forward, never looking back, not for a second.

Pete Wentz

#15. My Dad once told me: "you will retire only in your grave!" ; I wish he is alive to ask him "when I will retire searching for my grave!

Hisham Fawzi

#16. A friend of mine once told me a month is about how long it takes to begin seeing another person as another person instead of a character making a cameo appearance in your life

Katie Heaney

#17. My mother once told me my opinion was the only one that mattered. I've lived by tat advice ever since.

A.P. Heath

#18. An old gunslinger once told me that you never draw a gun unless you intend to use it, and you never - ever - tell someone you are going to draw your gun. You just do it.

Michael Scott

#19. You know, Drake, I seem to recall this impertinent young pup who once told me that problems shared are problems solved. (Jake)
And I seem to recall a surly pirate telling me to mind my own business or I'd find myself gutted. (Morgan)

Kinley MacGregor

#20. My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever.

Glen Duncan

#21. Someone once told me that part of you lives on so long as somebody remembers you.

Justin Cronin

#22. Anthony once told me: It isn't what you say to people, it's more important what you do with them. It's less important what you do with them than the way you're with them.

Amanda Palmer

#23. My father once told me that it's not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.

Henry Mosquera

#24. He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

Dean Koontz

#25. My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

Frank Herbert

#26. My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps.

Lev L. Spiro

#27. I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it.

Steve Lopez

#28. How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

Santiago Cabrera

#29. (Although I tried to always keep in mind something a friend had once told me: "Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they're out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.") At

Dan Harris

#30. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

James C. Collins

#31. My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

Angela Carter

#32. Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Val Kilmer

#33. Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open.

Tahir Shah

#34. A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday.

Liz Fenton

#35. She'd once told me that I was probably the only person on earth who'd be given more than one soapbox in their lifetime because their first one had been worn out.

Dorothy Koomson

#36. Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick.

Jerry O'Connell

#37. Someone once told me that just because you're beat-up ... " "Doesn't mean you're beaten,

A&E Kirk

#38. I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.

Tracy Kidder

#39. Alice once told me artistry does not reside in motivation but rather stems from showing up, with the intent to be honest. When I meet a dreamer with calluses I try to shut up and listen.

Michael Perry

#40. Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Mia Wasikowska

#41. My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

Orlando Bloom

#42. Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I've loved her ever since.

John Dufresne

#43. I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the romanticism about being on the road is you get to meet a lot of - my mom once told me, "You've probably got a woman at every port." Like I'm a pirate. Obviously she doesn't know her son that well.

Zach Galifianakis

#44. Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work.

Leonard Mlodinow

#45. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

Clint Eastwood

#46. My dad once told me that one day I'd meet someone who drives me so crazy I want to strangle her and yet never would because I can't bear for her to be gone. Well, that's when I'll know I've met a woman worth keeping.

Ella Frank

#47. A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

#48. He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.

David Peace

#49. My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me.

Jaden Smith

#50. Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to organize societies, how to make chemicals and fireproof skins. The animals know the Earth as we do not.

Jean Craighead George

#51. He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#52. Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

Michael Graves

#53. My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

GG Allin

#54. Emma once told me that some people spend their whole lives trying to outrun God, maybe get someplace He's never been. She shook her head and smiled, wondering why. Trouble is, she said, they spend a lifetime searching and running, and when they arrive, they find He's already been there.

Charles Martin

#55. Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

Darren Shan

#56. An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

Jane Seymour

#57. My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

Bob Saget

#58. Everything is possible. You once told me not too long ago we should always have hope and I do.

T.S. Krupa

#59. Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, Did you fall? He said, No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.

Billy Connolly

#60. My grandmother once told me, "Relationships are work, honey, and they aren't 50/50. Some days when I get up I only feel like giving 10%, then your granddaddy has to give 90% that day. But there is always 100% love.

Leigh Ann Lunsford

#61. You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tip
out of our favor?"
She had no answer.

Kiersten White

#62. A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

Anne Lamott

#63. Noah once told me he could hear horses galloping inside her. I got it.

Jandy Nelson

#64. Myself, I knew a writer - not your father - who once told me his worst day writing was better than his best day not writing.

Jane Lotter

#65. Lorraine once told me, smile big when you're sad. Smile big when you're happy. Smile big when you're bored. Because regardless how you feel, your face could use a stretch.

Marley Jacobs

#66. Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

Phaneesh Murthy

#67. My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'" She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn't easy.

Pat Conroy

#68. Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

Jack Dangermond

#69. For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

Douglas Brinkley

#70. You know, my poor grandmother once told me that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach. Life has taught me that it's actually a few inches lower.

Jenifer Mohammed

#71. This is your world, kid. Not mine. You know I don't belong here."
"You once told me you loved it down south."
"I was talking about anal sex."
"Of course you were.

Tiffany Reisz

#72. My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

Erica Goros

#73. He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.

Liza Minnelli

#74. I am not soft. I do not have that luxury. I am the wolf in girl's clothing; all snarls and claws. My mother once told me: be gentle, be kind. She forgot to mention that the world was full of beasts, and if I wanted to survive I would have to become one myself.

Nichole McElhaney

#75. A guy once told me that I sound like I'm a little ahead of myself. I can't wait to thank him at the Oscars.

Nicole Ari Parker

#76. A man once told me, money was the pathway to success; he was the poorest man i know.

Nikki Rowe

#77. What I'm mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don't see much future in it.

Brian Andreas

#78. I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

Lauren Potter

#79. A old man once told me "you live and you learn". We'll I've learnt that the blade sword is infinite, I've also learnt how to make a really good yogurt although this is not a skill I plan to employ at this point in time.

Terry Pratchett

#80. You know. She once told me there's nothing sexier than a man who's in love with his woman and not afraid to show it.

Ashley Stoyanoff

#81. Someone once told me to never dream.
I said NEVER SAY NEVER

Justin Bieber

#82. Jake, who is both fitter and more hedonistic than me, once told me what they say about martinis: "One's perfect. Two's too many. And three's not enough.

Julian Barnes

#83. My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.

Oscar De La Hoya

#84. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.

George R R Martin

#85. She's different."
"Everyone is different."
"Then let's say I like the ways in which she's different. A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it's how we run that defines us. And if I have to run, I think I'd like to go where she's going.

Michael J. Sullivan

#86. A very smart woman once told me that anger can feel like a life buoy, like it's the only thing keeping you afloat, but that in order to heal you have to let go.

Kimberly Belle

#87. Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.

Benh Zeitlin

#88. One of the masters at the University once told me that there were seven words that would make a woman love you." I made a deliberately casual shrug. "I was just wondering what they were." "Is that why you talk so much? Hoping to come on them by accident?" I

Patrick Rothfuss

#89. John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

Tom Robbins

#90. I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.

Ethan Coen

#91. Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.

Ansel Elgort

#92. My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness. This is my moment. Don't take that away from me.

Beatriz Williams

#93. The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

George R R Martin

#94. Someone special once told me to dare to dream. For without dreams, we have nothing to look forward to. I'm starting to believe her.

S.L. Scott

#95. My mom once told me that's the secret of life. We all think we're frauds. Everybody's winging it.

Elan Mastai

#96. A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

Hillary Clinton

#97. A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

Stanley Coren

#98. A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

George Hamilton

#99. One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.

Hassan Blasim

#100. My grandmother once told me that while there is no suffering a person cannot endure, there is plenty of good fortune one can never hope to enjoy. I believe that.

Mo Yan