I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Joe E. Lewis

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
Katherine Heigl

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
Elbert Hubbard

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
Britney Spears

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
Marilyn Manson

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.
Lynette Fromme

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
Mickey Rourke

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
Black Elk

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Herman Melville

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

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
Bruce Springsteen