Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will also be planting native grasses and shrubs in the landscaping beds at Fortress Rosecrans. We are asking for volunteers to come out and help us with the project.

We will aggressively look at products that have had success in other parts of the world for SABMiller. But we're going to be very disciplined in what we ask our system to focus on and support.

We couldn't ask Liz Hurley for her backing, though, because she's not a member of ours. She was, she joined in 1985, but she left in 1998.

We couldn't ask for much more. We hung right with them. We took a took a good team to overtime and just didn't get it done.

We couldn't ask for much more than that from our starters. Now we just need to get our bench more involved and we'll be in good shape.

We couldn't ask for a better start. They kept coming at us, and they will be right there at the end (of the season), we know that. But for one night, we can relish the fact that we're in first place. And they're not.

Carl Robinson

We couldn't ask for a better day. God blessed us with good weather.

We could not have asked for a more inspirational partner to create an equally inspirational and entertaining DVD series.

We could not ask for anything better. There have been wall-to-wall people here since we started. This is the biggest Pirate's Day that we have ever had.

We can't jump over the elected officials to ask our (planning) staff to do something.

Mitch McConnell

We can't go to the donor conference ... and ask countries around the world to contribute in the form of grants if we have just decided to send a bill to Iraq, thereby encumbering their oil, which is their only resource, to pay us back in the future," ()

We have written to the Warriors outlining our preliminary findings and have asked for a response in writing by the close of business Friday.

We have written to the match referee asking him to find out if Chappell has made the comments attributed to him.

We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.

Joe Torre

We have work to do. But, I couldn't ask for more.

Casey Blake

We just didn't have it. The end of the year came, we were asking guys for something, and we just didn't have it.

We came out sharp tonight, and I really can't ask for too much more than what they did in the first five series. The execution was sound and we had a good of mix of runs and passes. Bruce did a nice job of executing the offense and we had other players make players for us. We just have to keep it going.

We came out here and we tried our best, and just executed our offense. We knew that we were a big underdog, but the kids gave it all they could. That's all you can ask of them.

Raymond Carver

For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.

Rene Redzepi

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.

Richard Attenborough

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

Sean Covey

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

Scott Stossel

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

Scott Baio

You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.'

Sebastian Faulks

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way.

Rosemary Mahoney

The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China.

Mark Zuckerberg

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

Mark Zuckerberg

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'

Meredith Monk

In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It was at a festival in Bremen. The German audience went berserk and the reviews were a phenomenon. For some reason the German audience understood how technically challenging this music was; it wasn't just someone yelling their head off.

Peter Zumthor

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Singer

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.