Sentences with phrase «once said to»

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An English friend of mine once said to me, «You need to always be prepared to experience four seasons in one day.»

«One mid-size retailer once said to me, «I never thought of training about shampoo,» Panter recalls.

«Greg Alexander [at Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb] once said to me: «You really learn from your mistakes» and he's so right.

I once said to Jim Cramer before I started writing at RealMoney that the rules work 65 % of the time, they don't work 30 % of the time, and 5 % of the time, the opposite of the rules works.

As an intelligent former boss once said to me, «When does a company look its best?

In closing, as some of my older friends who have passed on once said to me, «If the locusts eat your crop, at least you don't have to harvest.»

There might be some off the beaten track lenders out there that might take it off your hands, but they wear «panky rangs,» as a mortgage borrower once said to me.

A: Well, one thing a client once said to me is, «Well, what about the (Capital Accumulation Plan) CAP guidelines?

This is a different book for me to review, but as my wife once said to me, «Only you could see the economic angles of «Little House on the Prairie.»»

This may sound like something that people shouldn't do, because as someone once said to me «it's all about the.

A wise person once said to me that there are three versions of every story: yours, mine, and the truth.

I then wanted to write about his new relationship — and about the difficulty of competing with «the ghost of perfection,» a phrase once said to me by Roman Polanski.

I remembered something my talented editor had once said to me: «Melanie's whole outfit is leopard - print?

A self - publisher once said to me that they didn't want to compete against people like Mo Willems, author of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.

As my colleague Tim Britten once said to me, «We're journalists, not designers, so we should steer away from a subjective discussion of styling.»

Jay Mathews of the Washington Post once said to me that he didn't think kids at a school such as the famous H. B. Woodlawn program in Arlington VA where I live needed my skills as a teacher because they were so self - motivated.

Early childhood educator Donna Z. Falcone once said to me that children often feel math is trying to trick them.

As she once said to me, social scientific portraiture was the way that she learned how to do the work of a sociologist, and her commitment to asserting the artful rigor of this research methodology has forever changed my expectations of social scientific research.

«Whether you think you can, or you think you can't; you're right» Henry Ford once said to describe the importance of attitude towards achieving results, and the world ought to listen; the great American inventor certainly knew a few things about success.

As a computer teacher once said to me after helping me solve a problem: «You should be able to do this (pretends to feed herself with an invisible spoon), but sometimes you have to do this (wraps her arm around her head, still bringing the invisible spoon to her mouth, but going the long way around.)

Not to mention the historic 1985 runs of Claude Lanzmann's nine - hour - plus Shoah, of which Talbot once said to me, «It was for me the most important film I have released.»

The Czech director Jiri Weiss once said to me, «Oh my dear, you have Nebraska.

It should thrill cinephiles and tech wonks in equal measure... Pretty much every frame of the film is packed with vivid, contrasting colors, and one of the strengths of the high - def version is how fixed and solid the colors are... Film grain, a bedbug of certain high - def advocates, is spectacularly intact... Indeed, Chungking Express is one of those films that thoroughly vindicates something film preservationist Robert Harris once said to me: «The grain is the picture.»

I mention something that the actor Simon Russell Beale once said to me, that all performers are trying to please either their mother or their father.

Peter Weir once said to me — and I'll never forget it — he said, «Come on and do a film of mine, and I'll take you on an adventure.»

There are many senior singles and it was once said to me regarding holiday... Places covered included North of WA, Lord Howe Island, and all states of Australia.

A Kenyan man once said to me, «you can get used to everything when money's involved.»

«My mother once said to me; there are two kinds of men you'll meet.

IronFish once said to me, «Don't invite your friends over for coffee, or you won't have any friends left!»

One of my first acting teachers once said to me that I am an «over-thinker».

A wise Rachel Zoe once said to invest in the pieces that are staples... pieces that won't fade from season to season.

Someone once said to me, «Every day work toward doing what you love because time will pass regardless.»

A coworker once said to me that her fiance was now the third thing she loved most in the world, behind her Stuart Weitzman 5050s.

Re the hoop earrings, a friend's older sister once said to me that men like dangly earrings so I'm always on the lookout for earrings with good movement.

Dr. Alan Gaby, America's past president of the Holistic Medical Association, once said to me the «small stools — big hospitals, big stools — small hospitals».

Dr. Wilson, the adrenal fatigue expert, once said to me «anybody with a pulse and breathing will suffer with stress in their lives».

As a Native American healer once said to me, «You can catch the train and take the journey or you can stand on the platform.»

My department chair once said to me, «I don't even know you,» and I had no idea what that meant.

(It's relatively easy to cure cancer in laboratory mice — «If you can't cure cancer in a mouse,» a cancer researcher once said to me, «then you should change careers» — but certainly not easy in people.

Mr. Cuomo, once himself said to be a presidential contender, didn't quite say he would reconsider his endorsement of Ms. Clinton, which he offered almost immediately after she announced her campaign.

Tony Benn says that Ralph Miliband, father of the Miliband boys, once said to him that when they were young one of them said, after a long chat about socialism: «but will it work?»

As one Canadian diplomat once said to me, «The U.S. always does the right thing — eventually.»

«We used to be buccaneers,» one senior shadow ministerial adviser once said to me ruefully.

Even those in the family who had never breastfed never once said to me «why are you putting yourself through this?

A dad once said to me, «I don't want to save the world; I just want to keep my kid out of trouble!»

a sage woman once said to me: «honor the impulse.»

I once said to a friend that I don't care how others choose to feed their children (breastfeeding / formula, offering solids after 6 months / early introduction).

As my nephew once said to his mom when he was about 5 years old, «Mom, I just can't stop thinking.»

Russell Banks once said to me, «A book is never about what it's «about.»»