#told

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#been #could #general #had #high

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#did #i #students #told #wastebasket

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. ↗

— Merce Cunningham

#give #grades #had #i #interested

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ↗

— Bill Dana

#been #cats #days #difficult #had

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#friday #friday night #house #i #junior

Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now. ↗

— Rick Dees

#jam #jimmy #living #me #minneapolis

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#cold #day #i #i write #know

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#attention #bright #depressed #hell #i

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates. ↗

— Curt Flood

#black #gone #hadn #i #lying

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing. ↗

— Julie Harris

#agree #colours #day #designer #good