Famous Quotes & Sayings

The reality is when the emergency occurs, it's simply too late to begin to ask the tough questions,

The reality is that many other people working in the auto industry are going to be asked to make painful adjustments, too, and a lot of people are going to say it's not worth it.

The real finger should be pointed to AACS to ask why it takes nine months for them to come up with this standard.

There is community interest on the status of the cleanup out there and the implications to our neighborhood. There are lots of kids here, any parent living this close to Rocky Flats would ask about the risk.

Charles Krauthammer

When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France

When I find something beautiful and fascinating, I keep coming back to it. I don't work with the part of my brain that has to do with theories or imposing my sense of the world on someone else. Nor do I ask questions about how we view things.

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

When I did this show four years ago, which was a very intense and emotional experience for me, I felt like that was a once-in-a-lifetime experience -- never thinking that four years later I would be asked to put something similar together again.

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Jack Reynor

When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

Rory Kinnear

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

Robbie Robertson

When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'

Flemming Rose

When I visit a mosque, I show my respect by taking off my shoes. I follow the customs, just as I do in a church, synagogue or other holy place. But if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with secular democracy.

When it was tied up in the Senate I asked the Town Council to make some calls. Did I get any help from them? No. They laid down their guns and walked away.

Johnny Damon

When it was asked if I would represent my country, there was no hesitation. I am proud to live in a land with freedom where we can even have this type of baseball tournament. Rest assured it will be great days for fans. It's just awesome to represent our country.

We usually ask for a donation . . . but it's not necessary. We're there to keep our neighborhoods clean.

We set some goals in the fall and for the first time in my coaching career, I had to ask the team to reset them because they've shattered the previous ones. We set out to improve our team stroke average and I think we did that by five strokes and we've been in the top five in nearly every event we've competed in with a shot to win each of them.

The people in the country were unbelievably warm and welcoming. They were gracious and kind. If they only had one chair, they'd ask you to sit there.

The panel asked us to work privately and quietly and we're doing everything we can to honor their requests.

Scott Fujita

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

Scott Fujita

I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?'

Scott Aukerman

I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I think it's one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You'd never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he's just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv.

The Weeknd

'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my first flight; it's very foreign, very Asian-inspired. When people ask me, 'Why Japan?' I simply tell them it's the furthest I've ever been from home. It really is a different planet.

Thomas Pynchon

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

Bea Arthur

The only one I wanted to do that I didn't was Gypsy, but by the time they got around to asking me, everybody in the world had played it, so I thought now is not the time.

The only names you should be putting on your body are family members. Never a significant other. That's just asking for trouble.

Johnnie Cochran

The only mention I'll make of the Simpson case is that it provided a sea-change for all of our lives. I'm still the same lawyer as I was before, but the opportunities were somewhat different and I was asked to move to New York, at least part of the time, to do a television show.

The prime minister has asked me me to go to Nepal to take a message to the king and also make a general assessment of the situation.

The primary problem is that the Senate bill does not build a stadium. The people of Minnesota should ask their Senators how this bill would get the job done." ()

The pricing model seems to be somewhat questionable here. People will ask why they need to spend that much money for a box.

We were cursed when we asked for help for our elderly. We had guns aimed at us by the police who were supposed to be there to protect and serve. They made everybody sit on the ground with their hands in the air, even babies.

We need a senator who will ask the right questions in the run-up to any conflict and not simply serve as a partisan cheerleader for whoever happens to be sitting in the White House.