Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe DiMaggio

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

P. L. Travers

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

Nikki Sixx

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

Nick Nolte

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

Margaret Millar

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Michael Dell

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

Mark Victor Hansen

You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

Naomi Campbell

I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.

Miriam Toews

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Oprah Winfrey

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

Marc Benioff

This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.

Patrick Ness

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

Patrick Ness

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

Lev Grossman

I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

Oscar Wilde

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Governments do make decisions when they attract businesses to the community. Baseball is not the only industry, by any stretch, to ask for government help when deciding where to have its corporate headquarters.

Government doesn't have the money to keep up with the developers, so we're asking them to pay their fair share for traffic they bring into the area.

James Spithill

Grant Dalton, constantly, whenever he gets asked something in the media about Oracle, he makes the statement that we have got unlimited resources, and we can do anything we like. It is just complete crap.

Great effort young man. That's exactly what we ask of you.

William Shakespeare

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know

Go to the landlord and ask to see the bills and the methodology used to calculate and figure what you owe based on the bills you've received.

Go talk to the people who are suffering in New Orleans. Ask them do they think it's pork.

Ozzie Smith

For the most part, guys try to be nice about it, but when these guys keep coming and asking, it's hard, ... It's one thing if they ask you to personalize it. But when they start asking you to put 'Hall of Fame,' or put 'The Wizard,' or put how many Gold Gloves you won, you know what's happening.

Tanith Belbin

For the first time, I was able to cross the border and when I was asked my citizenship, I could say American. That was exciting.

Alain Resnais

For the first time, I used a mix of black and white with color. In the editing room, I asked myself, What are you doing manipulating corpses this way?

For the first time in this ongoing saga we are considering and asking our attorneys to explore the possibility of occupancy on the peninsula as a way of settling the dispute.

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance.

For now, though, we're asking people who aren't in high-risk groups to hold off. And if you are in a high-risk group, talk to your doctor or get to a clinic.

Charlie Melancon

For that reason, as the representative of the homeless, the inundated, the destroyed and the dead, we ask you to give your full support to the formation of an independent, non-partisan commission,

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

For some of the kids, you might be the only positive thing in their day and so I try to take the time to talk to them, ... I ask how their days went and whether they learned anything new in school.

Irvine Welsh

Are you asking me or telling me?

Nancy Pearcey

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.