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

`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.

Benington recalled that he once told Hartweger that he doubted Gordon would ever play much for him because he seemed to be lacking in all of the accepted basketball skills.

`` It's so crazy '', I told him once.

Pink, Vivian once had told him, was for baby girls, and grown-up girls who wore pink were subconsciously clinging to their infancy.

A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

Nora confides to Kristine that she once secretly borrowed money from a disgraced lawyer, Nils Krogstad, to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride.

" I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not ," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, " but they sang blues you never heard before.

According to Isaac Asimov, Gauss was once interrupted in the middle of a problem and told that his wife was dying.

During a performance on August 19, 2011, Garth Brooks told his audience that once his youngest daughter is in college he will be " firing the tour back up.

Although the recruits had signed on as part of a scientific expedition and expected to spend their three month assignment collecting botanical and biological samples, once out to sea they were told, " Your names will go down in history " and that the islands would become " famous air bases in a route that will connect Australia with California ".

His colleague John Portman once told him: " Just once, I'd like to do something like the East Building.

Isaac was the only patriarch who stayed in Canaan during his whole life and though once he tried to leave, God told him not to do so.

" Some people think ," he told a Berlin rally in June 1935, " that we haven ’ t noticed how the Jews are trying once again to spread themselves over all our streets.

The novelist William Styron told Summers that he once saw Hoover and Tolson in a California beach house, where the director was painting his friend's toenails.

After the rumors surfaced that Bay's natural father was a filmmaker, there was much speculation about Frankenheimer, who continued to deny the story and told the Los Angeles Times that there had once been " tests " to determine paternity ( long before DNA testing ).

It would be a dangerous illusion to think that, if war once starts, it will come to an early end even if a success on any one of the several fronts on which it will be engaged should have been secured " Ribbentrop for his part told Hitler that Chamberlain's letter was just a bluff, and urged his master to call it.

Dekanozov was told that von Ribbentrop wished to meet with him at once.

If Judge Landis was suspicious of an attorney's line of questioning, he would begin to wrinkle his nose, and once told a witness, " Now let's stop fooling around and tell exactly what did happen, without reciting your life's history.

Still working for MI6, he goes on to collaborate with Pete Wisdom of MI-13 in facing the Welsh dragon, which had turned amnesiac and become a human crime lord ; Shang Chi had been told by Wisdom that the dragon ( being inherently noble ) would go free once it remembered its true origins, and was embittered to find this had been a lie.

' You told me once ,' she said ,' that you would never heal me.

CNN's preliminary report following the attacks claimed that an unnamed acquaintance relayed " He told me once that his father had tried to kill him when he was a child.

The renowned artist Konstantin Yuon once told him: “ Forget about politics.

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.

He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.

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 ''.

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

Tom told me about it, how one evening he went over to see the Theatre Guild man.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

Mr. Reama, who retired as vice president of the American Screw Co. in 1955 said, `` Both parties in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth in the gross national product -- but neither told us how to achieve it ''.

Six radiomen told how, twice on two days after the ring was nabbed, a transmitter near Moscow was heard calling, using signals, times and wavelengths specified on codes found hidden in cigaret lighters in Lonsdale's apartment and the Krogers' house and also fastened to the transmitter lid.

Fluids react to differences in pressure ; pressure changes are how a fluid is " told " to respond to its environment.

' I remember my news syndicate was so worried about what his reaction might be, and we were all surprised when he telephoned and told me how thrilled he was with it.

As he told the graduating class of 1990 at Kenyon College, " It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

The film told of how Piccolo helped Sayers recover from a devastating knee injury to return to his status as one of the league's best players, and how Sayers in turn helped the Piccolo family through Brian's fatal illness.

In later years, when Bradley asked how he achieved his sound, Atkins told him " it was Porter.

When told the blood matched both his and Chris ' blood type, Byers said he had no idea how that blood might have gotten on the knife.