Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cole Porter

Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. (when asked "Who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening'?)

Rob was pretty dominating on the mound. All his pitches were strikes and he did everything we could have asked for.

Philip Schultz

Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'

Reorganization is costly and questions are asked how effective it will be. Look at Smart, the street just wants the brand killed off. Why throw more money at a bad idea.

Geno Auriemma

Renee Montgomery had maybe the best game she's had since she's been at Connecticut. And I told her (Monday) she should transfer. I asked her, 'How does Mel Thomas have more steals than you? You've just got to get more involved. You've got to do more.' So (Tuesday) she's attacking the basket. She's stripping kids. She's playing like a basketball player. That makes all the difference in the world when you have guards that play like that.

Reporters keep calling me and asking if the Internet is to blame for this. Of course the Internet isn't to blame for it -- any more than the comet is to blame.

remain calm, and I ask them not to give in to provocations.

Please. Please. I'm just asking you to turn yourself in.

Mark Buehrle

(Pitching coach Don) Cooper came over and asked me after the ninth inning, asked me how I felt. I said, 'You sent me back out there in the ninth to face Vladimir, you might as well send me back out there.

Please, as many as possible come to join force to ask His Majesty to give us an impartial government.

Sunny Mabrey

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.

It doesn't seem real, When people come up and ask 'Do you know Chris Daughtry?' We're like yeah, he's family.

John Gibbons

It doesn't get any easier, but we've played them good all year. We'd love to go in there and knock them out somehow. We couldn't ask for more for what we're trying to do here. We're trying to build something, getting used to playing these type of games for our own experience.

Steve Martin

It doesn't behoove us not to ask these questions. It makes us look like fools.

It does look like, based on his particular history, that he has never used this much natural gas, so I have already asked our customer service representatives to send out a person to re-read his meter.

It doesn't put too much pressure on us. We don't have to win. We've already exceeded everyone's expectations. It doesn't change how we go out. We'll just go out and play 40 minutes. That's all you can really ask of each other.

It doesn't necessarily mean anything, because it has no more standing than if you or I asked for an investigation.

Jess Walter

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.

I still feel that our team was the best team at Center Grove. It's still pretty hard to get over. But we had a lot of positives this season. We felt we let one slip away, but I couldn't have had a better group of kids. They were fun to be around and fun to coach. I couldn't ask for anything more from them. It just didn't happen for us this year.

Tim McCarver

I think if you asked that question 30 years ago, it would have brought a different response,

I think if you asked any of the offensive players, they will tell you that they have time to go to work and to find a way to dissect the other team's defense because of the players that they (CC) have playing defense behind them.

I think if you ask around, this is precisely what we train for. This was expected and mentally our soldiers are up for this.

Pierce Brosnan

I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'

I think I did what I expected to do. If you ask me, 'Is that what you wanted?' No, I wanted more.

Gia Coppola

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

Tommy Amaker

I think he's playing in a nice rhythm. I think a lot of that had to do with Daniel and Lester. For a lack of a better way of saying it, we're not asking him to be Superman. We're asking him to contribute.

I think he was really into the team concept. He would come over and ask me if he was shooting it too much. He wasn't trying to put too much on his shoulders.

Dan Wheldon

To win both in the same year I think is an unbelievable achievement. I thought I would be able to do it in my career, but not so early. You think you're asking for too much for a championship. It's taken all the energy out of me.

To what extent a pension reform plan attracts and retains teachers will largely depend on what percent of our salaries the General Assembly asks us to sacrifice.

Toward the end of the trip, a Wisconsin church group asked us if we could send some people on an emergency basis to help finish off the field reconstruction. That night the town teams were scheduled to play their first games since the hurricane and the rebuilding effort was running behind.

This woman will have to testify, and it's valid to ask her if she's made any false accusations.

Roy Barnes

This one focused on instead of asking God for things to benefit just us as individuals, we should look around more and see what we can do for him.

We should ask more of our leaders. We should ask more of our Student Government, and we should ask more of ourselves as Gators.