Told Them Quotes
228 Told Them quotes by 190 unique authors
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Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go,…
— James Patterson
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The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.
— Dave Barry
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[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I…
— Tracy Hickman
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Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the…
— Greg Mortenson
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Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell…
— Rick Riordan
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Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him. Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly. You'll have to go…
— John Flanagan
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And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and…
— Wendy Mass
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He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is…
— Chaim Potok
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I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.
— Kim Edwards
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I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked…
— John Lennon
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Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try".…
— Charles Bukowski
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Yes,yes I did. I told them to come in and make themselves at home and while they were at it, to immobilize me and stab…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get…
— Christopher McDougall
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The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and…
— Robin McKinley
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Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her…
— Shannon Hale
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Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn’t speak too freely or behave…strangely?” I grew claws and bayed at the…
— Libba Bray
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A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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And nobody had told them that they were short on time.
— Cecelia Ahern
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Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her…
— George R. R. Martin
Who Wrote These Told Them Quotes
190 authors contributed a total of 228 Told Them Quotes, led by these top contributors: