#tellin

I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling. ↗

— Rocky Marciano

#face #feeling #get #had #heard

I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#i #intention #people #telling

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#i #i quit #like #me #quit

I don't have anybody telling me what to do. ↗

— John Mayer

#i #me #telling

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act. ↗

— Willie Mays

#always #ball #black #comfortable #enjoyed

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#child #clap #composer #general #good

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#famous #figure #get #glaring #gradual

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#everybody #gave #had #i #me

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#armenian #buyer #dealer #final #her

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#carrot #carrot top #dress #edge #get