Top 100 Someone Told Me Quotes
#1. I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
Guillermo Del Toro
#2. Someone told me to dumb my poetry down, but I told them I can't because I don't have a smart phone.
Delano Johnson
#3. Eucalyptus. Murray Bail. Someone told me that this was a great novel so I bought it, but then I discovered that it was great Australian novel so I put it away. I find it difficult to get to grips with Australian novels. Difficult, but not impossible.
Susan Hill
#4. Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.
Danielle Steel
#5. But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.
Oscar Robertson
#6. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.
Caroline Rhea
#7. Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.
Sarah Dunant
#8. Someone told me once that sex was like pizza; even when it was bad, it was really pretty good.
Warren Moore
#9. Having choices is the problem. Everything would be easier if someone told me what to do: push the button, stop seeing Marcus, get over Jesse. The problem with choices is that I usually make the wrong ones
Shaun David Hutchinson
#10. I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.
Liam Payne
#11. But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.
Don Bluth
#12. Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
Bruno Mars
#13. Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
James Hetfield
#14. Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?
Michael Specter
#15. One goes wherever one is still admitted. Someone told me that I might be able to get a visa for Haiti or San Domingo here.
Stefan Zweig
#16. When someone told me I live in a fantasy land, I nearly fell off my unicorn.
Unknown
#17. Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide ... "
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#18. Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of the moment. Someone told me that grapefruit was a great detoxifier and I decided I wanted to start cleaning out my liver WHILE I was having a cocktail.
Chelsea Handler
#19. When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
Wayne Kramer
#20. As someone told me later, writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics. This was the first time I was so punished.
Edward Frenkel
#21. Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.
Amy Harmon
#22. Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
Kate Klise
#23. I could do some sit-ups, but if someone told me to drop and give them twenty, it would have to be dollars because there's no way I'd be able to do that many push-ups.
Grace Risata
#24. Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
Niall Horan
#25. 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.
#26. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it ... It is unrequited self-love.
Emily Levine
#27. I went from barrel to barrel. It was magic. Why hadn't someone told me? With this, life was great, a man was perfect, nothing could touch him.
Charles Bukowski
#28. And somewhere
out there,
in the river of
addicts,
alcoholics,
wife beaters,
doormats,
overeducated legalized thieves,
fascist police,
and bitter rivalries
someone told me
it's a good city,
and I don't know
what's more frightening
Phil Volatile
#29. Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
Paul Simon
#30. Someone told me you start liking sex when you hit 30
but we'll see.
Paris Hilton
#31. Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment or not, but.
Lucy Punch
#32. If someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci's studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian's roof with him at night - I'm on the roof
Jandy Nelson
#33. Long ago," he began, "someone told me that I would be cursed in love, that those I came to cherish would be torn from me, that as long as I remained soulless, I would lose everyone I truly cared for.
Julie Kagawa
#34. 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
#35. Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.
Mac Miller
#36. My name is Sahil," he says as he looks up. "Someone told me it means leader.
Kashmira Sheth
#37. If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fascination with the truth. I'm not looking down my nose at it.
Ron Currie Jr.
#38. Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.
Ronald Reagan
#39. When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's the way from your head to your heart, and from there to the here and now.
Bert Hellinger
#40. I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
Raha Moharrak
#41. I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
Hannah Gadsby
#42. 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
#43. Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.
Geoffrey Rush
#45. My face and skin trick is to moisturise well in the winter time, because the weather eats up your skin, and I never go to sleep with make up on. Someone told me it ages you ten years.
Kelly Rowland
#46. After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.
Julie Chen
#47. If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.
Jessica Biel
#48. Someone told me "stop telling everybody that the United States government is Terrorist and this country has been made by blood over millions of dead-bodies." I was thinking: "wasn't for the same reason I have been kicked out from Iran?
Kambiz Shabankareh
#49. 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
#50. Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
Michael Bolton
#51. Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.
Nick Moran
#52. What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
Alice Hoffman
#53. Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
Dan Quisenberry
#54. The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Ronald Reagan
#55. 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
#56. A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.
Bruno Mars
#57. It was so cute and she was so shy. Someone told me that Randy Orton went up and hugged her and she wouldn't let go. It was kind of cute.
The Miz
#58. Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.
Margot Robbie
#59. I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.
Emily Levine
#60. Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish.
Richard C. Armitage
#61. Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen Hawking
#62. Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.
Mika Brzezinski
#63. If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.
Peter Steele
#64. Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
Anais Nin
#65. The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
Ted Olson
#66. If someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet romance, I would never have believed it. But it wasn't like that summer went at all like I planned in the first place.
Magan Vernon
#67. If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.
Mike Vallely
#68. Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!
Mitch Hedberg
#69. Someone told me - maybe it was the ugly one, unafraid to bash his own kind - that spine surgeons are weak among surgeons, that you can't really fix a back so you go in there and fuck around and bill the shit out of the insurance company and refer the patient to pain management.
Merritt Tierce
#70. Someone told me I'm a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.
Wade Kelly
#71. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
Ariana Grande
#72. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I
#73. When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'
Drew Barrymore
#74. I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.
David Leslie Johnson
#75. 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
#76. Someone recently told me that there are no winners in a tragedy, only people struggling to survive the aftermath." "Can't
Ruth Cardello
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Someone once told me how things begin isn't nearly as important as how they end.
A.E. Croft
#80. I never thought that tailoring was something that normal people did; I just thought that it was something that guys who had suits made of Italian silk depended on, and I wish someone had told me what a difference tailoring makes!
Anna Kendrick
#81. Yes, you scare me," I told him, after a very long silence, while I processed his answer. "But I'm irrevocably fucked up, so you excite me in equal measures. I find it liberating, to let someone control me ...
R.K. Lilley
#82. 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
#83. ... our production of the world, our interpretation of it, what we've been told to experience and what we've been told we have to do, both worry and distress me. I don't want to live in someone else's dream.
Alice Notley
#84. 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
#85. The whole point of love is to trust someone with your heart and pray they don't break it. It's about faith in each other. I gave you my heart when I told you I loved you which means I'm giving you power over me.
Belle Aurora
#86. I don't deserve your love, Eden. You have my heart, but yours should remain in your chest. Save it for a better man. Save it for someone who's worth it." His eyes shimmered as tears threatened to spill over. "You need to leave me."
"No," I told him, grabbing his face. "I need to love you.
Karina Halle
#87. Daisy said to me that I was trying to find ways to protect my heart but I was doing it wrong. She told me the best way to protect my heart was to trust it to someone who will protect it for me.
More silence but his body went completely still.
That's you. It's always been you.
Kristen Ashley
#88. I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
Fay Weldon
#89. Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are.
Anne Hines
#90. When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.
Joan Didion
#91. My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents.
David Levithan
#92. 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
#93. If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way.
Claire Messud
#94. I didn't used to overthink my choices quite so much. Then someone made what I've always been told is a very important choice for me, and now I tend to overthink everything else.
E.K. Johnston
#95. 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
#96. If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I'd have been shooting them all my life.
Amor Towles
#97. When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.
Fred Reed
#98. 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
#99. Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#100. One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.
Richard Louv
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