Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy H. Williams

I love the coast, I love the seafood, ... Then they asked me how I like my steak cooked, and that shocked me.

I love that kids come into my office just to talk or ask to use my computer. I wake up every morning saying that I'm just so lucky. I love what I do.

Jonathan Banks

I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.

Dusty Baker

I'll just take the same. Everybody asked if last year was a career year. I don't believe in career years. Once you do it once and find your formula, you should be able to do similar. He knows what he's doing now. He has an idea. He knows how to make adjustments quickly. He's very consistent. He recognizes very quickly what the opposition is trying to do to him and he knows his own limitations.

I looked him in the eye and asked if he wanted it, and without hesitation he said yes. He wanted it, and he took it, and as teammates they backed him up.

Michael Jackson

I look at this as a staff award. It's a good indicator that our staff is doing some of the right things and our kids are responding well to what we have asked them to do.

I'll trust you to hold (my daughter's) Sweet Fifteen for me and walk her down the isle (sic) for me someday on her wedding day. That's all I'll ask of you bro, I've always been a burden to you ... I'll trouble you no more after this ...

I'll tell you what: If you will go to court with me, and ask the presiding judge to authorize a release of that information, I will release it,

Sonny Rollins

I look at all that from the inside, so you'd probably have to ask someone else.

I read the book and e-mailed the organization, we got to talking and I asked if we could do a fundraiser for them. I then went to the school and started lobbying if we could have the football game with the fire fighters. They said they'd love to do it and here we are a year later, playing the game.

Bob Woodward

I realized I was going to be dragged into this, that I was the catalyst. And then I asked the source, 'If you go to the prosecutor, am I released to testify?' And the source told me, 'Yes.'

Jacqueline Woodson

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

Terrell Suggs

I reacted wrong. I let my emotions get the best of me. I was upset. In short, I asked him why is he calling the game like that.

I personally just thought it was an earthquake. ... Fifteen minutes later, I started to get phone calls from, basically, people asking us if we were all right.

Clearly, right now I don't feel very good about how things ended. It's a tough loss. We left it all out on the floor and that's all that you can really ask for. But it really hurts now.

City council had said no to the big box re-zoning, and this seemed a good opportunity as well. The director had contacted us and asked us for material to include in the film, and we think the Vancouver experience is going to be part of that film.

Peter Ueberroth

Cities can do what they want. We've asked them not to spend money. Don't get consultants. Don't get logos. Let's get serious about what you're going to embark on.

Richard Dreyfuss

Cindy Sheehan is making a starting point with the questions she is asking and it's not unpatriotic to ask them, ... It's actually a higher form of patriotism.

C-I is a very good team and we tried our best. That is all I can ask from the girls.

Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.

Verne Troyer

Being able to work with Madonna... she's a legend in the music industry and she's so beautiful, so I couldn't ask for anything else.

Ron Dayne

Being able to help the team win is all I can ask for. I haven't been upset about not playing. I just wanted to show the stuff I have. It was a lot of fun.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France. It is what the UMP asks for and expects.

Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.

Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life; But ask the gods to give you an enduring heart

Before booking a trip at any time of the year, ... ask if there is a public holiday weekend or school vacation during the time you wish to go. Avoid it if possible, or make firm plans well in advance.

Before banks wanted to see three comparable sales. Now lenders are asking for a fourth and a fifth comparable.

Troy Percival

I always wait for something miraculous to happen. I probably don't think it's going to happen, but I'll keep doing what they ask me to do.

Maureen Dowd

His House colleagues still call him "Jackie One Note"-joking that if you ask him how to solve the problem of teenage pregnancy, he'll tell you to cut taxes.

His friends wanted to leave him a gift, leave his family a gift. So they want to raise enough money to build and fully furnish a home for this family. They asked us to help,

Ben Howland

His father never even asks about basketball. All he asks about is his grades.

Jose Guillen

Hey, everybody knows how Frank is. He doesn't ask you for much. He wants us to play hard, run the bases hard. If you don't do that, you know you are going to have a problem with him. I'm going to support every decision Frank makes on field. If Soriano has a problem with it, he has to go to him.