#told

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #be original #become #been #before

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind. ↗

— George W. Bush

#american people #believe #cause #change #criticize

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #coach #i #knew #learning

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. ↗

— Desmond Llewelyn

#almost #anybody #australia #back #bin

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#baby #birth #clash #could #enough

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#aligned #any #attention #basically #because

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#doctor #her #i #me #mother

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#hippie #i #nervous #newspaper #people

I told my fans online how I hated my squeaky office chair. One day, a fan sent me a new chair. It was crazy! I still use the chair today. Pretty awesome. ↗

— Austin Mahone

#chair #crazy #day #fan #fans

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#everything #getting #getting older #had #happened