Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

The day will come when all of us will be asked a question, what did you do? People were dying, people were getting sick. It didn't have to happen, what did you do?

The days we've been open, it's been cart paths only. It's pretty disappointing. We had a few people ask us why we're even open, when they've come back from playing.

Mark Brown

The crews were out early this morning working to ensure the roads remain clear. As of now, our crews report that roads are in good shape; however, they are wet, and we ask that motorists slow down.

The fact that we haven't gotten a sound energy policy is the reason why they've gotten this epiphany. They're asking Americans to conserve, but they're not asking the same from the auto industry and the oil industry.

Donald Rumsfeld

The fact that some members of the press knew enough about those operations to ask the questions and to print the stories was clearly because someone in the Pentagon had provided them that information.

John Sweeney

The facts are clear. More funding goes to health care than any other part of the state's budget, and it is sad that the special interests would either ask taxpayers to pay higher taxes or that they would ask our education system or transportation system to receive less.

Well, there's no point asking questions which cannot be answered.

Well, that and workers' comp reform. He did lobby me for workers' comp reform, because Paul Patton asked him to. And the gas tax. He always wanted a hike in the gas tax.

George H. W. Bush

What is the noble cause our children are being asked to die for?

Hari Kondabolu

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

Linda Blair

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for 'The Exorcist' interview.

Levi Strauss

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

Liana Liberato

I love 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shameless,' and - this is going to sound really dorky - I'm obsessed with 'Dance Moms.' I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer. Maybe if I ever get a big enough name, I can call Abby Lee Miller myself and ask her to be my private coach.

Liana Liberato

When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, 'Well, okay. You can try.'

What we've asked for is to have some input in the injunction process and we are looking for ways to comply with the language in the 9th circuit opinion.

What we're trying to do is encourage people to participate. You can not win unless you get in the game. You've got to get into the game and you've got to put your name out there. What Herman was saying is everyone that's asked should play the game.

E. M. Forster

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

Donald Miller

Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.

Amy Vanderbilt

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Kathleen Hanna

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

I was like, 'Well, why not? This is what you do. This is your job.' So when I asked him for help, he sat down and helped me.

Matthew Perry

I was like: I'm going to ask Julia Roberts out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

Mark Turgeon

I was just asking our guys to get it close and put the pressure on them.

Chris Osgood

I was just asking him how he was, and I said I was ready and he didn't have to push it if he was injured, and that was it, really.

I was introduced to the president, ... He asked me what I did in life, and I explained my project.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

I was in New York for a dance program, and I decided to give (volleyball) a try. My mom called the coach and asked her if I could play.

Kirby wasn't a very romantic man at times. He bent down on one knee and showed me the ring and asked me if I would spend the rest of my life with him.

Keyed Entry is an exceptionally gifted horse. He's got loads of speed, he's very willing and he's obviously done everything we've asked him to do so far.

Tom Renney

Kevin was dead on the mark. He did everything we could ask of a goaltender.

Kim does everything that we ask her to do. She has the potential to be even better than she was last year.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go