Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenna Bush

Hey dude, are you trying to ask a Bush daughter to dance or something?!

Brooks Robinson

He wrote that he met with Powhatan and was fed cornbread and venison at a big banquet, ... Was he forced to write the letter? Well, the Indians couldn't read English, so they wouldn't have known if he was asking for help.

Chirac was elected each time on a left-wing, social platform and then asked his various prime ministers to do something else.

Lucille Clifton

children/ when they ask you/ why your mama so funny/ say/ she is a poet/ she don't have no sense.

California has a strong public policy protecting employees' rights to freely choose where they can work, and we are asking the court to vindicate this right.

Cale Hulse is a tremendous person who came in and did everything we asked of him during his time with the Blue Jackets. This move will give him an opportunity to play in his hometown and we wish him all the best.

Virginia Madsen

Can I ask you a personal question? -- Why are you so into pinot?

Candies are not legal tender and cannot be deposited anywhere. Again, a customer must be asked if it is OK to give a candy because of short change.

Glenn Reynolds

Call your senators and representatives and ask them if they're willing to support having that program cut or -- failing that -- what else they're willing to cut in order to fund Katrina relief.

Can you work with me on this? I've got some major issues here. I'm not asking for special treatment. I'm really not.

Can you force this district attorney to present (charges of perjury) to a grand jury? That's what we're asking for.

James Green

Can't think of anything to say. Feeling a bit nervy. Kinda like a bloke who has just asked the girl of his dreams out, only for her to say yes, now in the excitement he is not quite sure whether he can go through with it.

Stephen Harper

Canadians have asked our party to take the lead in delivering that change. We will honor your words and deliver on our commitments.

Canadians are asked to exercise judgment in reducing the use of oil and gas at this time.

Tana Umaga

But when we were under pressure we showed character to hold on. In the last 20 minutes some questions were asked of us and we came up with the answers.

But he recovered quickly and did what he needed to do. What more can you ask for?

But if they're going to be here for a while, they need to be in school. We're going to look around and see who's here and ask their parents why.

But it is a beta and we're still taking feedback, fixing bugs, and working hard to ready the final release. Customers and partners have asked us to continue to be transparent on the work we're doing and to release regular builds that they can evaluate and test. We're committed to doing this.

I bring it up, and the kids are so relieved and the parents are so relieved. But they would probably go without asking the question otherwise, which is really dumb.

Stella Young

I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name of my condition in an interview unless it's relevant to the context of the story.

Keira Knightley

(I am) really proud to have been asked to work with such an iconic house as Chanel, and thrilled to follow the extraordinary women who have been associated with it before.

I am so confident, in fact that I have asked the Compensation Committee of our board to pay my cash incentive bonus in GE performance shares for 2005.

I am proud to represent the people of my senate district and I want them to be proud of me. I ask for your support and prayers as I battle this disease.

Katherine Mansfield

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

I am sorry for the hurt that has been caused by my cowardly actions. I truly am, ... I ask the court for leniency so that I can get back to my family as soon as possible.

I am so proud of these kids that we got this far. They've proven a lot to me and I think everyone else that they know how to play. They give it everything they've got and that's all I can ask for as a coach.

Mohsin Hamid

I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention novels by Nabokov and Calvino and Tolkien on one occasion, by Fitzgerald and Baldwin and E.B. White on another. Camus often features, as do Tolstoy, Borges, Morrison and Manto.

Annie Golden

I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.

Champ Bailey

I always want to go. If you don't go, I don't know, maybe they quit asking you. I love it. Any time I'm voted in, I don't care if it's the 20th in a row, I'm coming; I'll be right here and I'll play like I want to be here.

Stephen Jackson

Carmelo is a big-time player and he hit a big-time shot. We had a slow start and got back into it. We gave ourselves a chance to win, which is all you can ask for. ... But it came down to a big shot at the end and he hit it.

Carlos did everything we asked him to do over the off-season - and more,

Joshua Slocum

Caring for your dead is legal in Texas. Most people don't know their rights. They don't know what they can ask for.

Certainly, if you ask me, I'd rather be 8-4 than 4-8, but we've played a great schedule. We've played some real good clubs both historically and currently; teams that have played in Omaha and that consistently play in the postseason.