Someone Once Asked Me Quotes

#1. Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.

Patricia Buckley

#2. Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'

Dolly Parton

#3. Someone once asked me if I had a favorite distance. My answer was easy: the closer the better.

Chris Kyle

#4. Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Mickey Rooney

#5. Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

Martin Short

#6. Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

Ian McEwan

#7. Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.

Michael McDowell

#8. Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey

Thom Yorke

#9. Someone once asked me ... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

Aaron Copland

#10. You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: 'If you're asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you're only cheating yourself'.

Alan Shearer

#11. Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!"

Richard P. Feynman

#12. Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has many benefits.

Sakyong Mipham

#13. Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

Rock Hudson

#14. Well?" she asked when she picked up.
"Do you think we're really alone in the universe?"
"Were you abducted by aliens again?"
"No, thank goodness. Once was enough for me."
"Oh, whew. So, what happened with Reyes? Did you see him?"
"Saw him. Argued with him. Barfed.

Darynda Jones

#15. Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest'!

Anastacia

#16. You asked me once if I ever get tired of being who I am," he reminds me. "And the answer is this: only when I have to leave you.

Kelsey Sutton

#17. A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Anna Garlin Spencer

#18. Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

Norman Schwarzkopf

#19. One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

Bob Hoskins

#20. Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Bingo Little, under the influence of romantic love or, perhaps just under the influence;..once said,'There is no love without perfect trust','Who told you that?' asked Bertie Wooster incredulously.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. What do you want?" Jake asked.
"Nothing. Can't I sit down for a chat with someone I once shared an egg with?"
"Trevor, you never chat with me. You mock me, you torment me, and sometimes you even say something profound. But you never chat. So spit it out and put me out of my misery.

Kat Attalla

#23. Once i asked myself ," what is time? " , in a second or two , i find the answer - " 't' for tension , 'i' for imaginative character of time , 'm' as it is mathematically expressed , 'e' as it has elegance

Suman Kundu

#24. Why would you do that for me?" Leesha asked.
Rojer smiled, taking her hand in his crippled one. "We're survivors, aren't we?" he asked. "Someone once told me that survivors have to look out for one another.

Peter V. Brett

#25. He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, To get practice in being refused.

Diogenes