Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bixby

Do you realize if one-tenth of one-percent write out of possibly 40 million viewers - 40,000 write - the weight that would carry? Is that too much to ask - that one tenth of one per cent be attentive to what they see? To take control of their own lives? Or do they want to remain children and give that control away?

David Davis

Do you know how many people ask me why I didn't hold you in contempt after the last stunt you pulled in this courtroom?

Robert Torricelli

Do you have an explanation you could share with the committee of why Mr. Ickes would call you and ask you to shred a document which he then produced himself and had in his own files? ... He's asking you to destroy a document which he made a point of retaining and then produced.

Petro Poroshenko

During my time in government, I did not become one penny richer or gain one share. I ask for one concrete fact that proves the accusations here today.

Reggie Theus

Defensively, down the stretch of the game, you couldn't have asked for more athleticism and smarts. I put a challenge out to our guards to defend off the dribble and they did.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Cheryl Lynn

Delbert knew me from the choir. He had started a group and he wanted me to be a part of it, so he called me one day and asked me to audition.

Deflation is not a risk the Fed should take, ... If you ask me, should they ease, yes they should.

Day in and day out, all I can ask them to do is play well. On the days you don't play well, you hope you find a way to win. We just try to avoid giving up the big inning, which we did (against Bishop Eustace).

Cliff Floyd

Day games here are definitely different than night games. The ball travels a little bit more. He ran out real quick. You're asking a guy who is very, very talented - very athletic - but who doesn't play as much to get a good read on the ball over his head off the wall. Your normal center fielder has a slightly better chance because he's out there every day.

Alex Graves

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Companies have to ask themselves, 'Am I willing to bet the cost of energy is going to go down?' That's the cost of doing nothing.

Companies are essentially asking employees to do two jobs. Employees can feel like you're piling it on.

Marcus Thornton

Coach (Scott Schumacher) called play number two and I came off the screen. I was just fortunate that I was asked to make the shot. It reminded me of the last Jacksonville game, when they used a lot of screens on us. It feels good to knock them out of the tournament.

Coach O, he's one of the guys you can look at - he influenced their lives. If I ... do what he asks me to do, I will probably have a wonderful life.

Coach Miles has been good to me and my family, ... For him to ask me to come was an honor to me. It confirmed our relationship. It meant a lot to me.

Coach has been asking the offense to step up and we finally did.

Coaches ask how we do it. I say to them it all starts with the coach. If they buy into what he's teaching, and they see he's passionate, then they'll respond positively.

Theo Epstein

Coco Crisp is not Johnny Damon -- he is his own player. He brings his own strengths. Johnny was an outstanding, elite leadoff guy and center fielder for us for four years. It's unfair to ask Coco Crisp to fill those shoes. He's going to go and do it his own way.

Abe Lemons

Coaches are creatures of habit. I knew a coach who got a deal going where his players had to run a mile in six minutes. I asked why. He said, 'gut check'.

Greg Davis

Coach Brown asked us to call all of our players and let them know so they didn't hear it on TV. I told Colt to get ready, it was time to go.

Coach asked us how many of the other seven teams in the tournament would practice hard and with intensity, and we said all seven. So that's what we did. & It's hard to mentally prepare yourself when you know there's a chance you won't get in. For those two days I was sick to my stomach. It was a terrible wait.

Coach asked me to be our best worker and best player a long time ago. I've done my best to try and be that. These guys have really bought into practicing hard every day. That's not something we've always done.

Coach asked me if I wanted to stay out, and obviously I?m going to say yes. There?s only one day a week when you?re going to pitch.

Tom Brady

Coach always says, 'Just because they ask you to do something doesn't mean you have to do it,'

Companies should ask themselves, what should we do?

Col. Broughton was actually supposed to be in that airplane. He was supposed to fly that plane that morning and got called out to a meeting within 15 minutes of the time the flight was supposed to take off, and asked my father to fill in for him.

Kate Ford

Cody said the kids asked if he got an autograph and he said, 'No, but I got a hug and a handshake, and that's better than an autograph,'

Scott Podsednik

Coming over my first couple of months people were asking me about the change in leagues. I didn't see a significant difference. ... I don't think it's a necessarily a different brand of baseball. The DH may have a little to do with that but it's probably just coincidental that the American League has won these last few.

Despite the seriousness of the charges, I would ask the court to exercise discretion.

Despite the happy ending of the release of the Egyptian diplomat, there are people who are asking what are the reasons behind such incidents.

Chris Isaak

They're over there in harm's way, for right or wrong, on behalf of us. We asked them to go. And I feel for them.

Steve Buscemi

They're not thinking of how it's going to please a mass audience, ... They're really writing it for themselves, and trusting there's an audience out there for what they have to say. Whenever you make a film, there's always compromises you have to make just to get it made, but you really have to ask yourself, 'How much am I willing to compromise to get it up on screen?' and at what point do the compromises mean that you're not really making the movie you wanted to make.