#told

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#any #before #cigar #easy #empty

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#being #compelling #compounds #fact #know

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#bank #crying #day #fields #got

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#about #any #anything #bank #been

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#being #design #driven #i #interested

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#good memory #lie #memory #ought #told

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#britain #card #come #family #give

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. ↗

— Alex Cox

#big #big problem #corporations #creates #dictate

I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.' ↗

— Nikki Cox

#cute #enough #ever #extrovert #good

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#cover #covering #her #i #instead