Famous Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to ask for volunteers, ... We have them coming up here, asking, 'Where do you need me?'

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.

Phil McGraw

The most you get is what you ask for.

Laura Linney

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

Lisa McMann

You're asking for trouble, Hannagan," he growls. "And you would be....?" Janie asks. She giggles. "Trouble.

Johnny Depp

I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.

John Tukey

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

James Joyce

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

James Rothman

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Gregg Troy

The guy works hard, does what you ask him to do and he is committed every day. It's not a surprise that these things happen. He has trained with this in mind all year, so it's hard not to be ready to go.

Emily Dickinson

The heart asks pleasure first, and then excuse from pain, and then those little anodynes that deaden suffering

The guidelines and review procedures are more stringent than they were the first time James was asked to remodel his action. It's been a fascinating, yet scary and lonely process for both of us, but James has taken it on the chin.

The good thing is I learned discipline when I started playing basketball. My (Liberty) teammates laughed at me when I first got there because I asked what time the team dinner was. They laughed and told me we were on our own.

The guy knows everything. You ask him a question and he knows. He's definitely made me into a better player.

Pokey Reese

The guy killed them in front of him and left. He remembers that experience. When they would ask him what was his favorite color, he said, 'red,' because he remembered all that blood. There was blood everywhere.

The group that's blocking the entrance is totally illegal. We've ask the authorities to help end this issue.

The groups want certain questions asked of Roberts to lay a predicate for future nominees. Unless there's a revelation we can't fathom, this will be the meat of the hearings.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The great thing is our kids never quit. They were scrappy and fought to the end and that?s all you can ask for as a coach.

The impact of this ruling is that even students who ask critical questions about Darwinism, or about intelligent design theory will scare administrators' about whether that puts the school in constitutional jeopardy. There's already been a negative chilling effect on open inquiry in places such as Ohio and South Carolina. Judge Jones' message is clear: give Darwin only praise, or else face the wrath of the judiciary.

Jim Allchin

The industry was asking for more certainty. We made a decision to move the date so everybody could be aligned.

The increases were just higher than we thought. As we did last year when we asked for budget increases, we returned $220,000 to the Town fund. Some of the money from the special appropriation we did not spend for the year, so we thought it was appropriate to return funds that were not needed.

The important thing is not whether the Fed can ease but the fact that people can even ask that question and some intelligent people say if the Fed raises rates in September, it would be a public relations disaster.

The important decisions haven't been made yet. You get the impression that there's not much really moving and ask yourself whether the optimism is really justified.

Mike Babcock

The idea you've seen this movie before, I don't know anything about it. This team's much different than the teams in the past. If you ask my guys they believe in their hearts they're going to have success.

The idea of the course is to teach students to learn more English so they can assimilate themselves better in the community. Our goal is to help them be able to ask directions if they get lost, go to the library and ask for what they need. It's a very practical use of English.

The DoD has never specifically asked the satellite industry to harden its satellites, because it knows it's not something the industry has to do for its commercial satellites.

The doctors asked a lot about what had happened. They revisited, if you will, a chronological timeline of what happened before, how she felt.

The doctor asked if I'm ready, ... I said yeah.

Robin Soderling

A lot of times, he was talking before the point was over, and I asked (the chair umpire) if he could do that. A lot of times before they made the call, (Murray) was screaming, 'Yes!' I didn't like it. After the call is made, he can cheer as much as he can. But not before that.

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.