Famous Quotes & Sayings

James D. Watson

The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.

Is there an inherent liberal bias in some of our leading news organizations or, asking the same question another way, is there an inherent anti-conservative bias in some of our leading news organizations?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.

Is the book accurate? Absolutely. While she was writing the book, she and I were in constant communication. She would talk to me about what she was writing and ask me about my memory of things.

Is that someone like Mike Weir or Chris DiMarco, is that what you're asking me?

Dallas Green

I started warming up at this place downtown for this guy and they asked me to be the headliner, ... From there, I practiced more, rocked the crowd, participated with the crowd and got notoriety.

I started out just helping out here and there, but soon teachers were asking 'Can I have him for this? Can I have him for that?'

I started out here at 21 my stepmother asked my sister if she wanted to bartend, and she didn't, so I did. Then I took time off for my kids. I've been back now about 2? years.

Sasha Cohen

I stayed strong, and I believed in myself and to finish up a strong program and get a standing ovation and then to have the judges give me great marks on top of that was everything I could have asked for.

Ken Follett

I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?'

I started teaching lessons on the side because there were a lot of people asking me if I gave lessons.

Ariel Sharon

Israel is being asked to pay by giving up a strategic asset while getting nothing in return.

When I was with Houston at the end of my career, Bob Gibson walked up to me one day when I was running in the outfield. He asked me why I didn't quit and said what a shame it was that I was ruining a great career and just trying to hang on. Years later, I saw Gibson trying to do the same thing.

Megan Charpentier

When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around.

When I was trying to come up with a game plan by talking to other coaches, I asked 'What, if any, are their weaknesses,' and nobody could give me one. They're such a solid ball club.

Michael Adams

When I was standing on the first hole this morning, Brett asked me what he thought would win. I said I thought it'd take a 69 to win. It's kinda cool to call it right.

Ted Stevens

What we are looking at is when the National Guard should be triggered to come into a state to assist, ... We aren't going to mandate it. We are going to ask for a report as to how it should be done and figure out if it is possible to develop a plan for that.

What we are asking people to do is donate an hour of their time a week. And the reason that is so important is these children, they get so excited to think that someone is coming to see them.

What was unusual about Harriet is we'd ask her some questions, she'd think about it, and then she'd actually give you a straight answer, ... She was such an un-politician politician.

We've received thousands of requests from all over the area, asking us to go in and look for their pets.

We've proposed a date. We're sticking to that date, but if others insist on pushing us further, there won't be a deal. We have done what has been asked of us. It was clear all week that the membership wanted us to make this offer.

Butch Vig

We were on tour so we couldn't make it. But we saw the movie in Tucson with a regular audience during its opening weekend. By the time we left the theater, there were like 500 kids standing outside and asking for autographs, so we had our own little mini-premiere.

What happens if the governor is incapacitated? Isn't it easier if you don't have to ask the governor to sign an executive order every time you need one?

Eric Clapton

What gives him the right to do that? ... I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like politicians. They are only musicians. Where do they get the right to talk like that?

What every one of those guidelines say is that if you're going to really significantly change something, you have to have pictorial evidence, and that's what the commission has asked them for.

Whatever we've asked him so far he's done, so we're going to try the dirt now and if he doesn't handle it, we'll still know that we have an exceptional turf horse. He'd only worked one time on the grass before his last race, and he's trained well on the dirt.

William Shakespeare

What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!

We want to know if it still is an effective growth model for the school system. We asked the administration to come back with a recommendation, and they may come back with reasons to eliminate year-round completely.

Cindy Sheehan

We want to hold this administration accountable. Nobody's asking them the hard questions but you know what, we're willing to come here.

We are never going to ask a taxpayer for personal financial information via e-mail.

What a performance. And we asked him to do it. We gave him the ball a lot, and he came through. There was no secret where the ball was going.

What am I to do now? That's what I've been asking for four days. I can't even get up off my bed I feel so bad. I can't even cook dinner for my kids I feel so bad. My kids are worried because they see me sick like this and they're like, 'Do you have to go to the hospital?' They can't take this. I've been in the hospital all my life. And they do this to me so I have to go back into the hospital? This is not fair.

We (the city and Vasko) are going in different directions. I asked him for his resignation.