Quotes about ask
asking both city developer grant input project together viable work
We're doing more than probably any other developer has put into this town. We're not asking for a CDBG grant or a TIF. We're here to get input from the City Council. We have to try to work together on this project to make it viable for both sides. John Hall
ask believe climb create faith five ladder life people periods walk
There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder. Fergie
ask backing call energy given music people side
I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play. Feist
ask hear music peter smith written
With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? F. Murray Abraham
asked good likes type
There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions. Wale
ask grateful great ran regular run
'Newhart' ran the longest, and it was great to have a regular role, but I run into a lot of film fans, and they ask me about 'Blade Runner.' I was grateful to be a part of that. William Sanderson
ask looks men
If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse. Gloria Steinem
ask authors editing fit land pen theme treat works
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
asked carolina century exactly fact grew knew knowledge north people scrap
People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had. Allan Gurganus
asking cure hearing patient people
Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.
asked brain brings care goes great mom seem sketch soup takes whenever
Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut. Allison Tolman
asked decided occasional offers sensible
We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour. Andrew Eldritch
asked dad english interact invite kids onstage pantomime running says sort stage tells took
My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us. Dan Stevens
ask department experience prefer
I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience. Anna Netrebko
asking jessica love simpson
I don't like asking for an autograph, but I would like to take a picture with Jessica Simpson because I love her style! Ashley Tisdale
asking basically choice choices three
There are three things that we're basically asking for: more time, more choices and more money.
asked elected job lots ought proposals reach table three tools
There are three proposals on the table and they have lots and lots of tools at their disposal. As intelligent individuals who have been elected by us -- and they asked for the job -- they ought to be able to reach a decision.
asked demand economic election four last proof three ways whereas
There are three or four ways we could say no. But we can't demand proof of claim. Whereas in the last election we did. We asked for and we got overwhelmed with economic analysis.
asking ball project
There are not a whole lot of high-cost things we are asking them to do that would put the whole project out of the ball park.
asking challenge good market matter michigan retail space start
Upper-level retail, no matter where it is, has always been a challenge to lease. The retail market is good on Michigan Avenue, but when you start going up high, you're asking for trouble. The right move, I think, would be to redeploy that space into other uses.
ask stan teammates wants
wanted to come in and do what Stan wants me to do and what my teammates ask me to do.
ask chance gave time
Wang really battled. He gave us a chance to win, which is all we can ask of him. He's getting better every time out there. Jorge Posada
asking choosing exciting famous far image parts point tweeting
I don't want fame as far as the tweeting or the image of it. But, the idea of being famous is actually exciting to me, just because then you can have a choice in what you do. I would like to be at a point where I'm not asking for parts anymore, and I'm actually just choosing between a part that I want to do. Emily Meade
ask begging bowl buddhism food learnt monk turned
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food. Kabir Bedi
ask books couple hope leave people stuff
When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that. Karl Pilkington
ask boys calling girls joined luther marching martin nelson thousands
Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too. Kailash Satyarthi
ask brushes cleaning months paint people six spill takes throw time washing work
People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine. Grace Slick
asked born messages people
I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, 'What's a Marvin Gaye?' and, I mean... Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was. Charlie Puth
asks becoming chapter chewing childish grows hardly itself keeps middle novelists pretend scribbling sluggish writer
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five. Walter Kirn
ask forty people stay whenever
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!' Wavy Gravy
asked class dad dads figures money proud recently responses seem seen sells son stuff work youngest
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do. Tony Hawk
asking physically picked roll skateboard stood turned yelled
I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's skateboard and stood on it. I started to roll down the alley, and I yelled at my brother asking him how I turn the thing. At the end of the alley, I just jumped off, picked up the board and physically turned it around.
asked best clearly pay people rather work
When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won. Tom Rath