Dan Morgan told himself he would forget Ann Turner.

`` But I've got to take a chance on it '', he told himself desperately.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

That is what childhood is, he told himself.

Then he told Linda Kay about himself.

He was going to make it, he told himself.

Gun told himself that the old bastard was a fool.

On my way out I told her, `` If you should eh just happen to see your husband, get him to give himself up.

But it was a hopeful sign, he told himself.

Well, he told himself, let's put the show on the road.

Just one or two swallows, he told himself, enough to lessen some of the pain.

Six weeks of marriage and I'm using the past tense, he told himself furiously.

Yet, he told himself, this was the best way.

Instead, Popova told him that he must do it himself.

Setting high standards, he told himself, " This next film must be an epic!

Hermes told Odysseus to use the holy herb moly to protect himself from Circe's potion and, having resisted it, to draw his sword and act as if he were to attack Circe.

Film critic David Thomson has stated: " Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct.

In 1992, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster told the Toronto Star that the name derived from 1930's cinematic leading men Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, but the persona from bespectacled silent film comic Harold Lloyd and himself.

When Shilton told Leicester he would not sign a professional contract unless he was guaranteed first team football, Banks found himself available for transfer, just a year after winning the World Cup.

Agnarr is told that Odin feeds Geri and Freki while the god himself consumes only wine:

As a result, McGuinn ended up replacing three of Parsons ' lead vocals with his own singing on the finished album, a move that was still rankling Parsons as late as 1973, when he told Cameron Crowe in an interview that McGuinn " erased it and did the vocals himself and fucked it up.

He told the court that he had planned to handcuff her, and then record himself reading out a prepared text detailing her " crimes ", before decapitating her on camera using a bayonet and uploading the footage to the internet.

Al-Libi also told the interrogators details about Richard Reid, and he agreed to continue cooperating if the United States would allow his wife and her family to emigrate, as he was prosecuted within the American legal system himself.

Starr told Moon that if he kept going the way he was, he would eventually kill himself.

There was more to this than Jones had told him.

First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

Surprisingly, he had told the others what he had done.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Lithe and muscular, he had well-molded features, and his light color told of the European ancestors who had been intimate with the slave women of his family.

Die Frist ist um, und wiederum verstrichen sind sieben Jahr, the Maestro quoted The Flying Dutchman, as he told of his career and wanderings, explaining that the number seven had significantly recurred in his life several times.

I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood.

What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.

A volunteer food brigade had been arranged, they told me, which would supply me with the necessities as long as I remained at the bridge.

I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.