Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sidney Crosby

There's not going to be a lot of surprises for me if I can ask him beforehand and see how things work. That's the main thing, just being around him and seeing how he goes about things every day.

There's not enough time to fulfill the NBA requirement, ... And I wouldn't ask them (the sports books) to, either.

The track was real good. You could run the top and the bottom and then you got in the middle. I mean, that's all you can ask for, a good race track.

The town is favorable to doing what it can to make this transition happen. The town is just asking the county to take over service of the fire department.

The top of the order is doing exactly what we are asking them to do.

Arnold Bennett

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

Louis Leterrier

'The Transporter' 1 and 2 are the movies I do for Luc they're not the kind I would go see or make naturally, ... You ask Luc, 'How do you want me to do it?'

Ed Olczyk

The transition for any young player into this league is something that takes time. He asks a lot of good questions and we watch his shifts together afterward (on video). Then the next time, it just becomes second nature.

Michael Wolff

The traditional media are asking themselves with some degree of desperation how they can make money out of this.

The tobacco industry itself has said this is a fair tax, ... The ones who have been giving us a run are the mini-marts and the big retailers like JR's. We're glad the tobacco industry saw it was fair, but it makes us think we could have asked for even a little more.

The timing ... makes me ask if (Grant) proactively went and solicited these inmates to file the lawsuit.

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.

Deepak Chopra

I started asking people, 'Where has he gone?' ... I couldn't believe that somebody could be with you and take you to the movies and then disappear completely. And so it's been a life-long quest. Where did we come from? What are we doing here? Is there meaning or purpose to our existence? Do we have a soul? What happens to us after we die?

Carine Roitfeld

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

Brian Jordan

I see a different type of year than the Braves are used to. If you ask Bobby, it has to be one of the most challenging seasons in his whole career. Definitely different. To me, a Cinderella story.

I sent a few text messages, but I couldn't call a lot of people because I was still getting calls from people asking me about signing as a free agent. When it gets in the paper, that's when everybody will know.

I sense we're getting a lot more attention. We have more fans supporting us. Hopefully if we keep winning we'll draw even more fans. In class, people ask me what time the game is? I don't think that happened much last year.

George Shinn

I see what Tom Benson is going through, ... I don't want to be the bad guy, OK? I'd rather the NBA be the bad guy. I ask David (Stern) every day, 'What should I do? What should I say?' I can't read the tea leaves, but the day of the announcement, I knew we had hit a home run.

Jay London

I slept with this girl, in the morning I asked her if she wanted breakfast in bed? She said one pig in the blanket was enough.

I see them making strong social connections that I'd never seen before. When they're ready, I've asked them to try and leave the island and visit the rest of Second Life.

Jose Fernandez

Is it his best job? You'd have to ask him. I have great respect for him. I think he's the best coach in the country.

I should think that the proper remedy is that ... the board ought to go to the General Assembly and ask the law be changed and clarified.