Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Davis

George Bates is our police chief, and if George was asking (for a curfew), I'd be the first one to make a motion. But until he comes to us and says we have a problem, I think we should leave it to his discretion,

Elizabeth Warren

G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.

Franz Kafka

But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

George Horace Lorimer

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Faith Hill

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

I've already been this year and not much seems to be different from past years if you ask me. I actually thought there were more people there this year.

I've always booked the theater with the idea of accommodating the unique needs of our groups. For example, the symphony can't be two weeks apart, and the theater groups all want to have three weekends per run ... the theater has always been scheduled with these things in mind, but we also have to gauge what the public is asking us to provide.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.

Scott Derrickson

I wanted the audience to leave the film with the feeling that they must ask themselves what they believe. Specifically, what do they think about the existence of the spiritual realm?

I wanted my children to understand that not all children get everything they ask for or want. That not all children have parents. I called around and asked about foster homes and found out about Everyday Blessings.

I wanted Lou to come up here in the worst way as a special advisor. He promised me, if I asked him to, he'd come down to Spring Training. He's just a terrific guy. He will not be with us this year.

I wanted Lou to come up here in the worst way as a special adviser. He promised me if I asked him to, he'd come down to spring training. He's just a terrific guy. He'll not be with us this year.

John Henderson

I wanted a thorough person who is going to ask questions. When I've worked with her on other projects, she always had questions. She doesn't hang back. She is going to speak out.

I wanted to have a public-access channel run by the people in Los Banos. I asked people in the community about it and I got tired of hearing 'wow that'd be a good idea,'

I wanted to go out there and go right at them and attack it, because I don't want to be asked these questions anymore.

I wanted to come for this and Mike asked if he could bring one of his friends. Danny was having too much fun back in Mexico.

Neal Pollack

I wanted a 1950s, jazzy feel. Neal asked me what section of the city I wanted to do, and I totally wanted to do the Green Mill. I wanted to do that neighborhood.

Val Kilmer

Thank you. I would like to say something truthful about Robert. He knows who he is and has a sense of humor about it. It's a hard business. And to have things happen that are bad and have to go through it with everybody asking you questions about it all day long is tough.

Jorge Ramos

Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

Maria Menounos

So, Ryan, I have to ask you a very personal question. How old are you?

Jamie Oliver

Sorry, I don?t do offal' - when asked to spend a day cooking at Westminster

Soro thanked the president profusely for the commitment and zeal with which he did his job as the chairman of AU. He asked Obasanjo not to be tired as he continued to help them in Ivory Coast to get out of the woods.

Matt Kuchar

Some tournaments have asked if he'd play with me, especially my first year when he was not quite 50, but he never did,

William Stafford

Some time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life. Othershave come in their slow way intomy thought, and some have tried to helpor to hurt: ask me what differencetheir strongest love or hate has made.

William Stafford

Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made.

Sophie turned to me and said, 'It would have been really romantic if you had asked me during this song. But I had already asked, and she accepted.

So much of the evidence presented to the grand jurors was 'blacked out' that it prompted one of the grand jurors to ask the prosecution, 'Did you guys get any sleep over the weekend?'

Jodi Kantor

Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'

Arn Tellem

Teams have asked him, in general, about the outfield, first base, second base. He's pretty open to any position other than catcher and pitcher.

I wanted the other girls to learn how to do the no-look pass, so I asked Sara to show everybody how she did it. And she said she didn't know how to explain how to make those passes. She just does it.

I walked into a rest room here on campus and I bumped into him, ... We both said excuse me and were on our separate ways. I asked a mutual friend who I had bumped into and they said, That's someone you should really get to know.'

Kofi Annan

I walked in and shook hands and he asked what happened to the Egyptian,

Sean Casey

I walked in and had to ask which way to go.