Famous Quotes & Sayings

If people ask me if they have an advantage, I have to say yes. They were in the same second as Honda here (at Bahrain during winter testing). They were strong in the tests and I am convinced they could even go for a podium here.

If somebody would have called and asked my opinion, I would have said, 'Let him play.

Lois Lowry

If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.

If somebody needs a place to stay for an extra four or five months until they find a job or until things are cleaned up down there, my place would be perfect. All I ask is that they pick up after themselves and wash their own dishes.

If somebody came up to me and asked for my professional opinion, I'd say, 'It's a pile of junk,' ... If a buyer was to come to me and say, 'What do you think of this house?' I'd say, 'You have a lot of work to do.'

Gerard Way

If sh*tty ass rock dudes, in sh*tty ass rock bands, ask you to show your tits for backstages passes, I want you to spit in their f*ucking faces and scream F*CK YOU!

If people want bike and pedestrian facilities, they need to ask for them.

I opted to give him a break after the Manhattan. He didn't have any major problems. I've been pointing for this race for a long time. I figure he runs well fresh, and he wants to go the distance. Naturally I'm a little nervous bringing him back off the layoff and asking him to go this far, but I think he should run well.

Reggie Jackson

I only know about teamwork. I've been around it my entire life and I still work for a team. I look for the Yankees to respond to your requests when you look them in the eye and ask them.

I personally asked the sheriff myself, and he said he had no comment. I said, 'What's the reason?' There was no reason given.

I only heard of a (few) people that asked about the free gas, and most of them suspected it was simply too good to be true.

I only did it because she wanted to and asked me to come with her, ... I just really didn't want to go at first.

Ion is one of the few to ask the questions. Like, what is this thing actually doing to my vote? How is it processing my vote?

Bob Dole

I once described myself as the most optimistic man in America. Life has taught me to put my faith in the uncounted millions who may never run for office, pass a bill, or craft a sound bite, but who fight our wars and embody the ideals worth fighting for. My contemporaries have been called the greatest generation. It's not a title we bestowed on ourselves, any more than we asked for the hand that history dealt us in our youth. Now I belong to a disappearing generation, perhaps five million in all, forever bonded by the tests we faced so long ago.

Robert Shaw

I once asked Otto Preminger if it was possible for someone to be a character actor and a star. He said 'No.' I'd like to prove him wrong.

Army Archerd

I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.'

I once asked him something at a question-and-answer session in London. He yelled back, angrily, 'You must be an English professor.' He couldn't even see me. He'd discerned it from the question.

I had a fifth-grade education when I decided to leave home, ... My mother gave me $9, and I took it and never had to go back to ask her or my daddy for a nickel.

Jerry Jones

I had a couple of teams call and ask to interview each coordinator for head coaching jobs. This is to be expected.

I had a communication from a constituent named Dan Boggs. It was sent to me personally He wrote it to me and me only as a board member. In the last paragraph, he asked me to take a specific action.

Pete Carroll

I had a chance to talk to Coach Wooden and asked him about the question of repeating,

If you bring the baby to us within 72 hours of birth and if there is no harm deliberately inflicted after the birth, then we take the baby, we ask no questions, and we're grateful that the baby's life has been saved,

If you can visualize your guy being right up there at the end, say the last five laps, when it becomes anybody's game, that's all you can ask for.

Dave Collins

I just told Clint I'm honored that the organization has asked me to come back, but I'm not going to decide whether to come back until the season is over, ... It's a big commitment. I want to make sure the decision I make is the best for this organization and my situation.

I just thought he should have some of this stuff. I think I was one of the first people who, instead of writing to ask him for stuff, actually gave him things.

Antonio Davis

I just think what these guys are doing is their best and what the coach asks them to do. I came into a situation where guys are willing to do anything it takes to succeed.

Adam Smith

I just saw people coming and going, and I asked if I could help.

I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not knowing where the entrance was and getting lost and having to ask people where to go and walking through with my bag and being kind of like, 'Where do I go? Where's my locker?'

Shaun Alexander

I just think no one is perfect. If you asked them (the officials), they'll probably say they could have had a better game. You can't take nothing back. What you can say is Pittsburgh won, and everybody has to go and knock them off because they're now the defending champions.

Helen Alfredsson

I remember I had to play with Nancy Lopez in my first game (foursome) and I didn't know if I was going to ask her for autograph. You know, we were so nervous to play with these players that we had never met and obviously they had been idols.

I remember I asked Margaret, 'Well, is there anything I specifically do? Should I give Byron a tour of the course?'

I really thought Roy was going to retire after the Johnson fight. That's what he told me, and I believed it. Then, in June, I went out to his farm. Roy wasn't there. I asked where he was, and his uncle said that he was out doing roadwork. A few weeks after that, Roy got the gym cleaned up. Then he started training; and the next thing I knew, there was a fight.

I really think they're taking this thing too far. I understand where they're coming from. We all need to be neat and professional. But to ask us to wear suits everywhere, even at a hotel at 2 a.m. I think that's a bit much.