Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betsy Brandt

In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.

Barkhad Abdi

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

Jacqueline Novogratz

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

John Shelby Spong

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

Training costs time on the front end, but it really saves a lot of time on the back end because you don't have 25 people asking questions later, one by one.

Tuesday at 2 p.m., I will ask for a voluntary evacuation if the weather predictions remain the same,

Jim Nussle

Yes, this is political suicide, I suppose, but we have to start asking the question for the next opportunity when we have to fund disaster assistance.

Debbie Ford

You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacred gift to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory, but each day.

Sarah Hall

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.

Lilly Singh

You are not any different. You can do anything you want. So many times, I've been asked what I think of women stand-ups. If you actually look around, there are so many female comedians starring in the biggest TV shows.

Harvey Karp

Toddlers are curious ? they want to touch this, taste that, but they can't reach it or ask for it.

We were in position to have a chance to win or tie the game at the end and that's all we can really ask for.

We were drawn in and were asked to intervene in the matter.

Cheryl Hines

While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.

Tom Ridge

While there are no indications that terrorists are planning similar attacks in the United States in the near term, we have asked train and rail operators in the country to be on a heightened state of alert,

Joshua Bell

You become what the composer asks you to become.

Michael Evans

You ask yourself if you could have done this differently or that differently. You worry that you're not giving your children the best.

Jerome Bettis

You ask why have the Pittsburgh Steelers been a physical, smash-mouth type of a team for so long. I think it's because the team takes the identity of its head coach. He looks for tough players. He looks for physical players. And he doesn't settle for anything less.

Studs Terkel

You ask what the score of the game was and they wouldn't know who's playing.

Jerome Bettis

You ask us to tell you something, and when we kind of skate around the truth, that's accepted. But when we tell you what we believe to be the truth, I think we've been criticized. So it's a shame that he spoke out on what he believes and he's being criticized. What Stevens said is what he believes. Their job is to make sure it's not a big block party after the game. Our job is to make sure everybody gets a ticket.

You ask them how they're doing and at first they say, fine. But if you talk with them for a few minutes, they start their laundry list: I miss my family. I lost this or that. I don't know where to go. It's cold here.

Marcus Aurelius

You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my Linus, has no sign of you

Mark Fuhrman

You ask me, I say Fuhrman is 257 percent guilty.

Sam Mitchell

You ask me how many game we're going to win, I'll tell you at the end of the season. I'll tell you in April.

You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. Not one name jumps out at you, because there hasn't been a guy that has actually stood up and put his hand up.

Bruce Reynolds

You ask how this happened. If I stood here and poked you, over and over, for six years, would you put up with it? You mix that with a guy who just came back from Iraq, what do you expect?

Joyce Banda

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

You asked what you can do for us. Expand the office here and hire about 15 more people,

Herbie Hancock

You asked me before about being an innovator and I mentioned that I've always been some kind of leader.

William Taylor

You asked about the 24 Apache helicopters, the 2,000 servicemen, Bradley fighting vehicles going in with them, what does it mean? It means ground power.

Jeremiah Trotter

You ask a T.O. question, you're going to get your feelings hurt,

Nastia Liukin

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.