Famous Quotes & Sayings

We can't do much about the weather. All we can do is ask the people to be vigilant and to keep an eye out for suspicious behavior and to report fires early so we can actually get to them early.

Matthew Fox

We were made for something cosmic and will not fit peacefully into anything much smaller. And when we try to build our lives around anything much smaller than cosmos we become grotesque, and our institutions, be they religious or familial or educational or governmental are asked to do too much. They become misshapen and malformed and turn into instruments of cosmic and personal destruction.

We were lucky the house wasn't more damaged. My sister's room is back there and it didn't break a single window. We've been asking to get the tree cut down. They were waiting for something - for the ground to harden or something - to cut it down. I guess we waited a little too long.

We were looking to Whitney to put everything away and she got tired in the fourth game. She will have to work harder to be in better shape because we will be counting on her. We will also be asking for a lot from the others.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

Drew Bledsoe

When I was 21, I just listened to him and didn't say much. Now he asks my opinion.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

Justin Chon

When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear.

Tyra Banks

When it comes to my celebrity interviews, I'm going to do a lot deeper research and ask them things that people haven't asked before, ... I've been on the other side so much, I have a leg up on a person that has only just interviewed people.

When it's an optional regulation, it's not that big of a deal, ... Next year it will be an issue: Investors will be asking the hedge funds, 'Why not register?'

Dennis Anderson

When I took it over, the challenge was that the play was too long, I was asked to shorten the show. That's not an easy thing to do when people have been doing it for 50 years. You have to understand, we have 400 people that volunteer their time up here and any changes I institute wouldn't happen if they didn't stand behind what we were doing. In fact, a lot of the revisions we've made have been at the suggestion of the people who are involved in the play.

Ray Haynes

We are being asked to engage in a great social experiment, and the results of that experiment, if it is a failure, will be visited upon our children.

We can play better. If we can make up 10 strokes, we can do it. That's asking two strokes per man, and that's not asking a lot, so we're within striking distance.

We can only start to ask some of these questions a generation or two after a tragedy of this magnitude.

We'd play games and I'd have a couple of college coaches come up and ask about players and nobody would ask about Derek. Once I found out why, I went to Derek and told him not to get upset but the college coaches thought he was playing soft. He just gave me a bewildered look, but he realized he had to change.

Ken Hitchcock

We really asked Michal to take a bigger bite.

Justin Langer

We're all waiting with bated breath every time he bowls, ... All I know is that champions usually get up for these contests and I'd be surprised if he doesn't play. Don't ask him, because he'll tell you he's 100 per cent fit and he's never felt better.

Jim Wright

We realize we're asking the community for sacrifices. We're also going to make tough decisions.

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.

We put five in the top 15 and my sixth-place runner p.r'd by 30 seconds. You can't ask for any more than that.

We put 10 pictures inside each box with a little note asking them to please help us find him, and also thanking them for defending our freedom.

John Sherman Cooper

We provided complete protection to witnesses - right of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and open hearing if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing.

We have to step back and try to understand. I asked the big man why he did it, and he said it was just a reaction. I told him that it was a reaction that had cost us a goal and a point, but I also said he'll learn from it. I did that once here when I played for Portsmouth, and the coach at the time, Frank Burrows, told me I'd learn from it and I did.

We have to stay consistent. We need guys to be disciplined and do what we ask them to do.

We hope Stoke gets back as soon as possible, but injuries do happen. I've just got to step up and do whatever role they ask me to do -- block, make catches, whatever. I've got to step up and make plays. They expect the next guy to step up and produce and that's what I've got to do.

On the turn, I had so much horse that I just went to the outside because I didn't want to get trapped. When I asked her, boy, did she take off.

Martin Freeman

On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'

Alex Salmond

On the streets of Livingston people have been asking why the chancellor has failed to do his part to limit the rapid rise in petrol and diesel costs,

Byron Leftwich

Right now, who knows. I don't listen to anything until I ask Fred on Saturday or Sunday, 'What's up?' And he'll let me know.

Right now what we're doing is we're asking too much from (Reid).

Roger is much closer to David Niven, Cary Grant - gentleman type of actors. So we built the script around that, more lightly. It would have been ridiculous to ask Roger to mimic Sean's style. He had to develop his own.

Byron Scott

Rod said the guy was the real deal, so I asked him why did he fire him. Rod said that he (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.