Top 100 Told Me Quotes
#2. People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!
Evanescence
#3. As we walked to Fr Walsh's office, Sting asked me what I thought our punishment might be. I had just been beaten for the missing page fiasco, and he told me, straight-faced, that his last thrashing was because his dad was a milkman.
James Berryman
#4. As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?
Nancy Bird Walton
#5. I had thought of being a hermit, but she told me I was over-qualified and suggested instead a profession where I might enjoy the sound of my own voice.
Gillian St. Kevern
#6. To my mother, who always told me to write about what I know. I'm fairly sure she didn't actually mean this.
John Wiltshire
#7. 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
#8. When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese souffle.
Edmund G. Love
#9. Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
Eduardo Galeano
#10. What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.
Jeff Lindsay
#11. I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.
Kelsea Ballerini
#12. Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing.
And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.
Darynda Jones
#13. God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem ...
George W. Bush
#14. Did you run any of this by Curran?"
"I told him I was about to do something idiotic and dangerous, and he told me to go ahead and let him know if he could help in any way."
"I don't understand your relationship.
Ilona Andrews
#15. When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.
Robert Fisk
#16. Yet you told him you loved him?"
"Yes, I did."
Bridgid was clearly impressed. "You're more courageous than I am. The fear of being rejected pains me to even think about, yet you boldly told Brodick how you felt, even though he hadn't spoken his feelings."
"Actually, he told me I loved him.
Julie Garwood
#17. One of his co-workers told me one time when I was about 20 years old, "I like your dad. He hates me, but the thing about your old man is that he hates everyone the same." I've
Eric Greitens
#18. I'm alone," Angie had told me a month ago.
"No, you're not."
"You're not alone," I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind.
"Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can't change that right now.
Dennis Lehane
#19. The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves ... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.
M.F.K. Fisher
#20. My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
Haruki Murakami
#21. You told me once dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between.
But now you've left me and love another;
You have shattered all my dreams.
Kate Avelynn
#22. 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
#23. My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Adrien Brody
#24. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me goodbye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she skipped through security. She never came back.
Gayle Forman
#25. What the hell?!" Vee shrieked. "Why did you shoot him Rixon?"
"Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me too."
"You can't shoot people just because Patch says to!" Vee said, her eyes wild.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#26. I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.
L.M. Montgomery
#27. Didn't even have to argue with her. She just told me she loved me and offered the back of her neck." He crossed his arms over his chest. "How many pups you got with Janie Mae now, Bubba Ray . . . and still she's as unmarked as a newborn babe. So which Smith has control of his female now, boy?
Shelly Laurenston
#28. As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#29. And I know that I would never, not in a million years, be kissing her like this with my hands in those places, if she hadn't told me that I had moves, that I was smooth.
Alyssa B. Sheinmel
#30. 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
#31. Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
Kanye West
#32. My mom once told me that's the secret of life. We all think we're frauds. Everybody's winging it.
Elan Mastai
#33. Nicki Minaj thanked me on the first mixtape that she put out. She shouted me out, said thank you for allowing her to borrow my English accent sometimes. And honestly, a lot of people have told me that I've influenced them.
Monie Love
#34. I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
Olesya Rulin
#35. They gave me drugs and told me to see a gallbladder specialist to make sure the stone had passed. I told them that hamsters can only blink one eye at a time. I considered this a fair trade but they billed my insurance company anyway.
Jenny Lawson
#36. One day he told me that he'd spent his adulthood trying to let go of his past, and he remarked how ironic it was that he had to get closer to it in order to let it go.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#37. 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
#38. History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money.
John McAfee
#39. Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!
Walter Isaacson
#40. When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.
Erma Bombeck
#41. My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.
Zooey Deschanel
#42. Once I had a boy in here whose name was Liam. One of the first things he told me was that I couldn't make him do anything he didn't want. He wasn't going to do any work for me. He wasn't going to listen to a single thing I said.
Torey L. Hayden
#44. Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
Thomas Jefferson
#45. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be.
Carole King
#46. People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.
Neil Gaiman
#47. My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.
Giovanni Ribisi
#48. They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I'm the one who falls in love
Bob Marley
#49. Nobody in the world could have told me I wasn't gonna be a rapper. So, yeah, I always knew I was gonna be one.
Lil' Wayne
#50. In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk."
You aren't standing up." he point out.
You are.
Diana Gabaldon
#52. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
#53. People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
Jill Abramson
#54. I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
Maria Monk
#55. My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp
#56. A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym.
Mark Kostabi
#57. 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
#58. Lauren swallowed. "Lisette also told me ... you weren't house-trained." He gave her a knowing look, but said only, "She had one out of two things right.
Joey W. Hill
#59. And where do you see in all this the influence of the Castle?" asked K. "So far it doesn't seem to have come in. What you've told me about is simply the ordinary senseless fear of the people, malicious pleasure in hurting a neighbor, specious friendship, things that can be found anywhere, ...
Franz Kafka
#60. I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.
Bart Yates
#61. Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.
Kamal Ravikant
#62. I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.
Bauvard
#63. If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.
Helen Reddy
#64. I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.
Jordin Sparks
#65. In front of the coffee tablethere is a neon-pink stump stool, which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that every house has to have a 'wart,' or one really ugly piece.
Lauren Santo Domingo
#66. Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving. There was ruin everywhere and we should see more of it.
Rebecca West
#67. He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
Alvin Lee
#68. He'd told me the world could be the most lovely place you could imagine, so long as your imagination was fueled by love.
Sebastien De Castell
#69. I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
Johnny Vegas
#70. Will you follow me, Darsal? Will you Silvie? Will you both follow me to hell and back because two fuzzy white bats told me you should?
Ted Dekker
#71. Maybe I am senile already and people are too kind to tell me. People are not kind and would tell me. (Maybe people have told me, and I'm too senile to remember).
Joseph Heller
#72. Someone told me I'm a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.
Wade Kelly
#73. A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it.
Barbara Demick
#75. I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.
Alec Baldwin
#76. Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
Quincy Jones
#77. Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
Linus Torvalds
#78. If you told me to cry for you
I could
If you told me to die for you
I would
Take a look at my face
There's no price I won't pay
To say these words to you
Jon Bon Jovi
#79. One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
Ben Affleck
#80. People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.
Armand Hammer
#81. Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?
Chaim Potok
#82. Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#83. I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'
Amber Riley
#84. Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
Gary Kemp
#85. She calls me 'bird boy' and Hawkeye every time she gets a chance. Last year she bought me a bow and arrow for my birthday and told me it was for when the Avengers were called into action.
Lila Felix
#86. My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.
Heather McDonald
#87. I won't go with you," Allan told me.
I scowled. "No one asked you to come."
He looked offended in a rather dire way. "Who will entertain you?
A.C. Gaughen
#88. Moses told me once that you can't escape yourself. You can run, hide, or die. But wherever you go, there you'll be.
Amy Harmon
#89. A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.
Joan Smalls
#90. I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They fed into each other, so it was best to quell such thoughts before they gathered strength.
Kjerstin Gruys
#91. I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard.
Raul Labrador
#92. Do you remember when you told me I had beautiful knees? I never like my knees. In fact, I thought they were ugly. But your eyes have rehabilitated them. Whether I see you again or not, I'm going to live out my life with these two beautiful knees.
Siri Hustvedt
#93. On this Twitter thing, at least five people a day say 'bring back the mullet.' My wife told me I'm not allowed. Troy Tulowitzki wants me to grow a rat-tail for his charity. I was like, 'What the heck is a rat-tail?'
John Kruk
#94. The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
Saint Augustine
#95. My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here.
Bigwig
Richard Adams
#96. I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.
Paul Mooney
#97. Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants. By this measure, Peter Van Houten was possibly the world's douchiest douche.
John Green
#98. But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn't follow. That we are essentially not the same. There's no "till death do us apart" for those who never die.
Cassandra Clare
#99. 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
#100. Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.
Erma Bombeck
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