Someone Once Told Me Quotes

#1. Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#2. 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

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

Justin Cronin

#4. 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

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

A&E Kirk

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

Mia Wasikowska

#7. 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

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

Jack Dangermond

#9. It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Rick Riordan

#10. Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

Arthur Ashe

#11. Someone once told me women want to be understood, while men want to be accepted.

Opal Mellon

#12. Someone once told me the difference between a rut and a grave is this: a rut has a little more room to move around. When I find myself in a rut, I know I better get out fast before it becomes a grave.

Regina Brett

#13. Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Vera Farmiga

#14. Someone once told me that you know you've found the right one when both people feel like they don't deserve each other." She closed her eyes, then leaned back and looked at me.
"Let's love each other because we can't help it, not because we deserve it.

Marilyn Grey

#15. Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.

Anonymous

#16. Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.

Eli Broad

#17. Someone once told me love isn't perfect - or predictable.

Lauren Morrill

#18. Someone once told me that Yahweh would make himself known to me, if I searched. And he did. Perhaps he will make himself known to you.

Connilyn Cossette

#19. 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

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

Justin Bieber

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

Benh Zeitlin

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Ginni Rometty

#25. 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

#26. Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

Jodi Picoult

#27. Someone once told me how things begin isn't nearly as important as how they end.

A.E. Croft

#28. Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.

Edeet Ravel

#29. Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

Victoria Justice

#30. Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are.

Anne Hines

#31. Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.

Maisie Williams

#32. But someone once told me, you cannot climb a well from the middle, you must fall right to the bottom. Once you are there, in the cold, alone and ankle deep in slime, you'll look up and you'll get a real sense of the dark and the work involved to climb towards the light, the truth.

Salena Godden

#33. Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure.
I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.

Richard Siken

#34. Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Walter Lord

#35. At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.

Steve Martin

#36. Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?'

Erica Packer

#37. 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

#38. Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.

Marwa Rakha

#39. Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#40. Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.

Bruce Lansky

#41. I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#42. Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved.
Even the unlovable?
Maybe especially them.

Glenn Beck

#43. Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Alfred Hitchcock

#44. Someone once told me that the ' ... Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.

Britney Spears

#45. 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

#46. My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel.

Katie Nolan

#47. A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

Melina Marchetta

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.

Aimee Mullins

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

Manish Dayal

#54. I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'

Dwayne Johnson

#55. 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

#56. Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

Beth Ditto

#57. A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

Bill Viola

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

Roger Ross Williams

#61. I never read my reviews ... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

Pat Conroy

#62. Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.

Matthew Quick

#63. Someone told me once, that he who talks to himself is conversing with a fool. I suppose there's truth in that.

Neal Barrett Jr.

#64. My grandma had told me once you couldn't make someone love you or even like you, but you could sure as hell make someone put up with you.

Mariana Zapata

#65. Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

Amy Harmon

#66. Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

Robert Boswell

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

Thom Yorke

#68. Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.

Nimrat Kaur

#69. It was hard to be honest, to open up, and reveal something that sounded crazy. Because once you told someone the truth, that person had a piece of you - and they could belittle it, destroy it. They could turn your confession into a wound that never healed.

Sarah Cross

#70. A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.

Pittacus Lore

#71. My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents.

David Levithan

#72. Someone told me once that sex was like pizza; even when it was bad, it was really pretty good.

Warren Moore

#73. Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

Danielle Steel