Told Quotes

My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.

Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

Im going to grab a cheeseburger, i told patch. Want anything? Nothing on the menu. I smiled. Why, patch, are you flirting with me?

I told my wife, ‘One woman, lots of toys!’