Famous Quotes & Sayings

We went around house to house and asked the people if they liked the idea.

Reynolds Price

What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life

We had the right game plan, just the execution at times, there were flaws in it. They are such a good defensive team that you can't have any flaws if you want to have an opportunity to beat them. Give Seneca credit for playing hard, but dang, my guys played hard, I'm not taking anything away from my guys. (Jensen and Brown) did everything I asked them to do tonight; they represented Plano High School very well.

We had the bases loaded with no outs and the number four, five and six hitters coming up to the plate. What more could you ask for? We didn't get it done.

We had the ball in the hands of the guy we wanted to take the last shot. We had a couple of chances at the end. All you can ask for is to have a shot to win down the stretch.

We will not ask the king to leave the throne ? we will go and take the throne and put it on display.

The problem could be anything, ... This helps people learn how to ask the right questions to get beneath the surface conflict.

The punishment phase of a capital murder trial is drenched with emotion ... because it's a horrible crime and we're actually contemplating putting someone to death. Twelve people on a jury are already saddled with that heavy burden. ... Is that the right environment to ask (a) clinical question?

We simply ask for the environmental review to be legally sufficient.

George Lois

When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.

Jay Feaster

When I talked to (St. Louis in August), he asked me what we were going to do with Andy,

When I talked to her before the game, she asked whether or not we could get two games in. I said that we did not come here to play two; we just came to play one.

Sophie Okonedo

When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say.

When I spoke to him he wasn't respectful. He just chewed on a straw when I asked him to take it out of his mouth.

With five million unemployed in January, you have to ask whether any far-reaching reforms happened at all.

We got so many letters from readers asking about it and so many pitches from writers wanting to write about it. Definitely there was increased interest.

Jim Cooper

We got rattled in there, but the kids came back especially when we got behind in the third period. That was huge. They showed great character. They gave me everything I asked for all year long except for one more goal.

Dave Stephens

We got quality minutes from everybody. I'm really proud of the team effort, and what's even more important is that all the guys executed the way we asked them to.

We help each other out. When we've played a common opponent, he'll call me and ask me how these guys play. And I do the same thing. He really didn't have too much to tell me besides what we both knew already.

We improved as the year went on and you can't ask for more than that. We got better every night.

We don't want them to wait until they get thirsty (at practice) before they ask for water. By then, we feel it is too late.

We expect Northwest to formally increase its labor asking price from $1.1 billion to $1.4 billion in the next few days.

We expected the full-court press and the pressure. Our girls got a little intimidated by it, but I am very proud of this program. I give my hats off to these girls because they fought and gave everything a coach can ask for.

We changed our business practice and use the retail model. The customer is greeted and asked what business they are conducting, and we look at the documents they have. It averages 7 to 8 minutes from the first counter to when they walk away with a license.

We certainly need more. Nowadays, these are families and children more than they are the traditional homeless that people run into on downtown streets asking for handouts.

We certainly don't want to engage in speculation. The important thing is that it was found. ... There is an investigation. We'll keep asking questions.

Paul Scheuring

We certainly asked that question, and research bore out that, in fact, when you are going to incarcerated, you can make a request through your attorney to be incarcerated in a particular place that's close to your home, your family and friends. Now, the court doesn't have to honor that, but it certainly is a real process. If we didn't have that, then we might not have this show.

We certainly appreciated that he came here and asked what questions and concerns we might have. At this point there are just a lot of unknowns.

We could be in a situation where we would ask customers to take outages. Rolling outages would mean that certain sections of the island would be without power for about one hour, maybe two hours at a time.

We could ask for a week off, but I bet the league will not give it to us.

We control our own destiny. That's about all you can ask for at this point.

We control our destiny still, and that's all you can ask for.

Ronde Barber

We are very critical on ourselves, but overall I think we did everything that was asked of us. We stuck together and had guys in the right spots. When it came to crunch time we were able to make the plays.