Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Kirner

A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

Anthony Zinni

a lot of work to do, but if I didn't think he would make progress, I wouldn't have asked him to go.

Billie Armstrong

A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!'

Margaret Hamilton

A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the 'Oz' picture - fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious, the disbelievers write and ask how? why? when? what for? did you fly? melt? scream? cackle? appear? disappear? produce? sky-write? deal with monkeys? etc., etc., etc.

Eddie Guardado

You want to look for bright spots. If you're a fan who knows the game, I think you'd have to say we're better. I know I've had guys from other teams ask me, 'What's wrong over there? That's a good lineup. We haven't hit consistently. We haven't pitched consistently. And we haven't done both in the same games consistently.

Ichiro Suzuki

You want to know the color of my underwear, too? ... You guys are starting to ask questions like the Japanese writers used to.

Dan Boyle

You want to have a game plan, but you need to see what they give us. We need that big power play goal. On a scale of 10, if you asked what our confidence is on the power play, you won't get a lot of eights, nines or 10s.

You won't need a ticket and you won't be asked to give any money; we just want you to come and see what it's about. We want to get as many people there as possible. This is going to be a great event, and everybody's going to love it.

Joe Girardi

You've got to learn how to play this game. And a lot of our guys are being asked to learn this game at this level. That's what you have in young players. They are smart kids, they are going to learn.

Hemant Mehta

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

Jack Welch

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

You've got to ask yourself, will we have another 100-to-150 basis-point decline in mortgage rates? ... I would say that's a stretch, so it's not going to be a reliable source of funds for consumers -- we'll need to see the economy turning around.

Clint Eastwood

You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?

Percy Ross

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful -- and neglected -- secret to success and happiness.

You've asked one person to do too much. As a result we don't have good planning, ... Because of the way it has functioned in this town, we haven't had long-term planning to determine how we preserve our island character and charm.

And so if instead you were to ask people - this started out as $500 million, and now it's pushing toward $700 million - and say, this is going to run about $1,000 a person, are you willing to commit that to have baseball come here to Washington? They're going to look at you and say, are you kidding me?

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

Terry Francona

And I went back to make sure he wasn't lying. I checked in the cage, and asked the guys who were throwing to him.

And I think we're deserving of being there. I think our program is one of the top ones in Texas. When we got the invitation I called a staff meeting and asked our coaches why we shouldn't go to this event, and no one could come up with a reason why not. It's going to be an opportunity our kids may never have another chance to do.

Todd Mark

And most employers will ask for permission to pull your credit report to see how responsible you are but also because if someone's in debt, there's a greater risk of internal theft.

Witold Walczak

And that, of course, is the option we are asking the court to take.

Clive Beddoe

And some of our American shareholders asked us if we would consider it and we certainly saw no reason why not to do it.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And now even composers are proud of asking people to experience silent moments up to two or three minutes in a given piece of music.

All we wanted was to be heard, to be able to ask if she cheated.

All were asking the board to do tonight is to set a date for a public hearing.

Laura Thielen

All we're asking is that you give us a chance and work with us. We'll figure out where to go from here.

All we're asking for is one shepherd's rod.

All we did was change the process slightly. We continued to use the same consortium, but asked them to introduce a second step. We asked them to take local bids.

Paul Gray

All we ask of our guys is that they take good shots. The shots we took tonight were good shots, shots we like to take in the flow of our offense.

All we ask of Chris is to give us a chance to win, and he did that tonight. We just couldn't get that third goal, and we hit the post three times.

Carl Douglas

All we ask is that they bring a guest with them.

Jerry Miller

All we ask is that everyone is treated equally. Don't make criminals of the people that mean so much to this community.

All we ask is if they can come through the same fence and drop the generator there, all we need is it back for the kids, it's all for the players.