They Told Quotes

192 They Told quotes by 162 unique authors

What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the… — Marina Sirtis
They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody. — Yasmine Bleeth
I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger… — Conway Twitty
They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his… — Colum McCann
Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them… — Xenophanes
They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not? — Dee Dee Warwick
When I was 12 my brother told me I had to wear the burqa, but I really wanted to play, because I was a child.… — Malina Suliman
When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my… — Malina Suliman
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life. — John Lennon
I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought… — Eva Green
I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory… — Ellen DeGeneres
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and… — Black Elk
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men;… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better… — Jennifer Lawrence
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. — Doris Lessing
I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem… — Wynton Marsalis
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19...… — Katy Perry
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible… — Sheryl Sandberg
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the… — Casey Stengel
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City.… — Ice T
The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions… — Donald Trump
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but… — Johnny Vegas
I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do. — Jacki Weaver
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they… — Kate Atkinson
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who… — Helene Hanff

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