Famous Quotes & Sayings

We realized that, for a new show, three days a week is asking an awful lot of the audience,

(Wellington) worked harder, they played harder and they were willing to do what their coach asked them to do. We were not.

What I'm hearing is the decision concerning my position was made before yesterday (Thursday). I was concerned when two weeks ago they hired Carolyn (Campbell) part time for help. We hadn't asked for help. We thought we could do it ourselves.

Tom Daschle

What I'm going to do is talk to my colleagues a little bit. It was a very helpful briefing, and we were in a position to ask a lot of good questions, ... more to say about it later.

What I liked about our kids is we came out and we played with courage. That's really all you can ask of them -- to play with pride. It's the experience part. We only have a couple seniors. We're getting experience each game and once we get more experience we're going to pick it up.

Chan Gailey

We've got to practice a lot of different things this week. We can't ask Taylor to do some of the things Reggie can do, just from an experience standpoint.

Patrick Leahy

We've given billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security. I voted for those billions of dollars as a member of the Appropriations Committee. We have given as many tools as they've asked for. What in heaven's name was happening?

Michael Imperioli

We take them to dinner... When you're asked to dinner, it's not such a good thing. Remember that.

Michael Imperioli

We take 'em to dinner. Lots of rituals revolve around food, as you saw. When you're asked to dinner, it's not such a good thing.

We think companies should be pushing back. They're only going to be asked for more. These things are gradual. They see if they can get what they're asking for, and it gets bigger and bigger.

We (the government) will send a letter to the Quartet, which would convene soon, asking for their interference to try to stop building the wall, and we have earlier sent a similar letter to the UN secretary-general. We need an international pressure on Israel to force it to change its positions.

We told Jennifer (that) we knew they were in there. We didn't want to harm them. We asked them to come out peacefully.

We thought we needed a kicker after about a week of camp. So, I sent word to Mike Barr (soccer coach) and asked him to pick one and send one. He sent me Karl and he?s been great. We think he?s a gamer.

We thought we'd try to get him some pitches. He's still not seeing a whole lot, but he gets on base and scores runs. What more could you ask for in a lead-off guy?

Retief Goosen

When I play over here (the U.S.), I have to get releases there and when I play in Europe, I have to get releases from here. Wherever I want to tee it up, I have to ask somebody if I can play. It's quite scary.

Ozzie Guillen

When I played for him, I said, 'If you don't mind, I want to learn from you. Can I ask you questions during the game, why are you doing this?' He explained it to me,

When information is missing, we're going to put the needs of the disaster victim first. If that means that later we need to come back and ask them for some funds, we'll do that. But really our first priority is helping those folks out.

Today, if you walk down the street and ask the first 20 people who the heavyweight champion is, they don't know the answer, and that's a crime. There should be one heavyweight champion. Having more than one heavyweight champion is like having more than one president.

Kofi Annan

Today I ask all the parties to bring to an end the violence that for 24 years has caused untold suffering to East Timor,

To combat heart disease, the No.1 killer in New York City, we are asking restaurants to voluntarily make an oil change,

David Lyons

What you see architecturally is what you get with personalities here. It's very much a sense of conformity. I became very unpopular because I dared to ask questions.

What you're seeing is that inflation is rising, ... It's still at a low level, but you know what the trend is. The question to ask is, How much is too much? At what point does the Fed say it's risen enough that we don't want it to go any higher? That's the difficult question to answer.

What you're doing is, you're paying $22.8 million for the privilege of putting up $100 million. At that point, you'd ask why would you need the middleman?

What we've seen is, when you ask them to do more, they do.

What we've got to do is educate the union. Right now, what they're asking is just totally unrealistic. They need to get realistic about debt revenue and not gross revenue. That's where the big disconnect is.

What we have asked them to do is share the football,

What we have asked the IPCC to find out is how much is incompetence, negligence or gross negligence and how much of it is something sinister.

Here he comes. Why don't you ask him?

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

Gabrielle Zevin

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

Eckhart Tolle

I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

A doctor does not ask about political views and opinions - that is how I understand my role.

Elmer Rice

When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.