#told

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't! ↗

— Christine Taylor

#good #growing #growing up #i #inspiring

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#catching #got #haven #lot #stories

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#direct #mislead #must #parliament #possible

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#compliment #our #regard #slick #sufficiently

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me. ↗

— Joe Theismann

#believed #enough #ever #i #me

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week. ↗

— David Thewlis

#agent #cannes #end #flight #get

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?' ↗

— Peter Bergman

#daughter #did #friend #had #her

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#chances #could #dad #equivalent #ever

My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#ancestors #chapter #chosen #father #first