Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

We stayed there for a couple of weeks. Peter was quite a musician and playing coffeehouses, and David was always asking Pete for insight into what Americans liked.

Matt White

We've been working on this specific application for nine months. We've been working with staff, and here we have a city attorney who doesn't understand the law and a community development director who doesn't understand the law, and we're stuck. We're just asking trying to get into the public process.

Hassan Rouhani

I'll tell you that when an innocent person is killed, we never go about asking or inquiring whether they were Jewish or Christian or Muslim. That's not our way or creed.

We'd love to get back to Boston. People have been asking us about it all year. You get to play at home and in front of your home fans. It's just down the street.

Andrew Miller

We would invariably ask people, and they would say, 'Has Lorne talked to you?' We'd say yes,

Brendan Shanahan

We were all hoping he would get it. I asked him before the third period and he said he didn't think he'd had one since before Scotty (Bowman), I was like, that's a long time.

We were all happy for him. Any time a guy comes out and asks us for help and support, it makes us realize what we need to be doing as teammates to help him.

We definitely competed. I feel bad for the guys. They competed for 90 plus minutes. You're just asking for a break, just for a ball to bounce your way. That's all it's going to take to turn it around.

We don't know what's in it, but we know the result. The judge is asking that we proceed with the sentencing.

We don't know how the fire started. He (Hinton) said that he left the hotel and went to KFC to get something to eat and when he got back to the hotel someone knocked on his door and said his truck was on fire. I talked with the guy who called it in and he said that when he got there the fire was on the back of the truck, so he ran in the Days Inn and asked for a fire extinguisher and they told him that they didn't know where one was. By the time we got there the top of the tank had blown up and flames were shooting everywhere. The truck was totally engulfed.

We don?t know exactly how they were built. Presumably, people who worked on-site were asked to just build them.

We don't intend to ask the reporters to reveal their sources,

We work like a surgical team. We think exactly the same. He knows what tool to hand me before I even ask for it.

We want to know if it still is an effective growth model for the school system. We asked the administration to come back with a recommendation, and they may come back with reasons to eliminate year-round completely.

Cindy Sheehan

We want to hold this administration accountable. Nobody's asking them the hard questions but you know what, we're willing to come here.

We are never going to ask a taxpayer for personal financial information via e-mail.

Wrong decisions are based on lack of information or misinformation. Before making a critical decision, ask yourself, do I have all the right information? and did I validate my assumptions?

Aaron Paul

I just don't like to ask for things.

Sarah Lacy

I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivory tower' aspect of journalism where people might read a byline for years but have no idea about the person who was behind it and never get to communicate with them or ask them a question.

Sania Mirza

As I came to the lime light, the media asked me many questions. A lot many moral policing... 'Wear this, wear that, why a T-shirt?' Everybody has the right to form their opinions, and I have the right to ignore them.

Sara Zarr

When my characters are questioning things, it's not me leading up to an answer; it's me asking those same questions and letting the characters' lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.

Sonu Nigam

I was the first judge in the 'Indian Idol' format. The biggest risk when you adapt a format from a country in the West is how to make it your own, so I remember at the press conference for Indian 'X Factor,' the press would ask, 'Who is Simon Cowell?' And I said 'Why don't you ask Simon Cowell, 'Who is Sonu Nigam?'

Sonu Nigam

If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music.

Rand Paul

The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.

Ranbir Kapoor

The last time when I was in a relationship, I used to talk about it, but the spotlight gets to your personal life. Wherever you go, people ask the same question. At times, it gets difficult. You work so much on a film, and people only want to know about your personal life. I feel bad that they don't talk about your work, but it's part of my job.

Robert Fisk

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

James L. Brooks

I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.

J. Cole

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

We played with a lot of intensity tonight. We asked our girls to give themselves an opportunity to win. They played really hard and fought back in the fourth quarter. We gave ourselves an opportunity, but we just needed another shot or two to fall.