Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Stack

Speed was a very important part of my life. Someone once asked me if I ever tried drugs. And I said I didn't need it, I had speed. It's a kick.

Bill Guerin

Speed is a big part of my game, ... I mean, my legs are my whole game. I'm not one of those guys who can get by on my hands alone. I need my legs working to get the rest of me going. So, it's a legitimate question to ask about them now. I have to have my legs if I want to have my game going.

Jasper Fforde

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

Space technology can and does fail. When you mix plutonium into the equation, we think you're asking for trouble. It's not theoretical. It's real.

John Fahey

So when people ask me how good I am, I usually cop to being brilliant, even better than that, but short of genius.

Linda Fiorentino

Sometimes I have to work because I need the money. You weigh the issues and ask yourself, Can I wake up every morning and do this?

One has to ask the question if such a decision was taken in South Africa's interest. Durban is known throughout the world as a rugby city and was supposed to get the Test this year.

Jay Wright

One guy, Speedy Claxton. He reminds me a lot of him. You ask how does a guy 5-10 make it to the NBA? That's the kind of things Speedy did. He's the only other person I've seen do that. That's why he's special. A lot of guys say, 'I'm a point guard. I set people up, that's what I do.' Kyle's a ballplayer. He says: 'I'll do anything I have to do'... The point guard is not supposed to do that. A good team can block out four guys. You're not thinking about blocking out the point guard, but he loves that. That's a basketball player.

One guy riding by on his bike just asked if I'd sell him my tickets.

One guy asked me why we wouldn't just want to tear down the Dome because it harbors so many bad memories of the storm, but we had 30 years of good memories here before the hurricane. It could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans, something people could rally around.

Dan Gelber

Once you start asking public school teachers to instruct on matters of religion in science classes, you're in trouble.

Once you're part of this organization, part of this locker room, you can get drawn away by money, but the majority of guys, in their heart, if you ask them where they prefer to play, it's here.

Judith Jamison

One couldn't ask for better support in an executive director. I am able to focus on what the dream can be, not how much the dream will cost me.

Once you get passed all the fixed increases you ask what else you are going to need. I t leaves only a few hundred thousand dollars for programs that we want to add.

Josh McDowell

On December 19, 1959, at 8:30 at night I placed my trust in Christ as Savior and Lord and asked Him to come into my life and forgive me.

Jill McCorkle

One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Johnny Mize

One day, the infielders were having a pretty bad time and were making some bad throws to me at first base. After digging a few out of the dirt, Joe Orengo called over to me, 'Atta boy, John, you look like a big cat.' Some of the writers overheard the remark and asked Joe about it later. The nickname has stuck with me ever since.

Brian Grazer

One day Jim came to me with this great idea to update Fun With Dick and Jane. It not only had great comic potential but seemed torn from the headlines. He asked if I would be willing to produce it. I jumped at the chance.

One day I went over and started talking to him and one thing led to another. I asked if he'd be interested in sort of helping and maybe get involved in the program. He started tinkering around. One day, there he is with a rake around home plate. He would always say, 'I don't want to step on any toes here,' but he always had great suggestions. It just grew and grew and grew.

Stacey Snider

One day I was asked to pick up $50,000 worth of gold chains for Mr. T. For real!

One day I took a visit and my mom asked me how I liked it. I said it wasn't too bad. She said good, you're going there next year.

One day he wrote to me -- I was in Moscow at the time -- asking me to state publicly that he was not a KGB agent, ... I did state publicly that he was not a KGB agent, because he was a (Soviet military intelligence) agent.

One customer told me he asked his wife if she wanted to go out to dinner, ... She told him, 'No, let's just go down to the Cafe.'

Nowhere here in the City of Grenada do we have a building that can accommodate 3,000 people. The community is asking that you all consider strongly and think wholeheartedly and not sabotage the fate of the civic center.

Now, for four or five years, I don't get nothing, I don't hear nothing. And I don't ask why. Ray had been sick only one day in his life. Pneumonia. Maybe food poisoning. It was before a fight. I had to go to Philadelphia because he wouldn't go to the hospital. He called the hospital a good place to die. He didn't ride elevators, either. Ray is not a man to be trapped.

Ray Nagin

Now is not the time to change leadership. I ask the citizens of New Orleans to let me continue this important job of rebuilding our city.

Now is a time of crisis for our party. It is necessary to ask someone who has a lot of experience to take over and do the job.

Thurston Moore

Nova Scotia College contacted us; it was really early on... they asked if we wanted to do a symposium. We just sat around and talked to some students.

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?

No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible

Jeff White

Now, Al, I think, leading up to the Western Michigan game it might have been at the Tuesday press conference you were asked about probably Ahmad and you said, at that point, you had ruled him out, that he was probably unavailable. Is it the same deal this time?

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Mike Easley

Once the high winds come, we cannot get in and get you out. We cannot get there by boat or helicopter or by plane. There are 61 shelters open. There is no reason for someone not to evacuate if they have been asked to do so.