Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Conway

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.

Adrian McKinty

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.

Alexander McCall Smith

Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.

David Chang

If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on.

Alan Alda

My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

B. B. King

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

Marianne Williamson

Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.

Marianne Williamson

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Annie Lennox

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

Andre Agassi

When I get asked that question, I'm just a bit numb to it really, ... All I can say is how I feel ... I don't know what's going to happen.

Michael Mullen

When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying this time?' because we left last time, in 1989 in Afghanistan, and we sanctioned Pakistan from 1990 to 2002. So I think it's a fair question.

Carrie Vaughn

When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.

Marlee Matlin

When aspiring actors ask me how they can make it in this business, I always ask them, Do you really want to act? I did it because I wanted to do it.

Jack Nicklaus

When asked 'You really know your way around the course. What's your secret?' The holes are numbered.

Yogi Berra

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Bob Dylan

When asked what his songs were about: Some are about 10 minutes long, others are about 5 or 6.

When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.

Doug Harvey

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

Michael Hayden

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

When asked how much do you spend on expenses, I get one set of answers, yet when I look through your bank statements, there is a different picture. Based on what you say you earn and what you say you spend, you should have around $1,000 a month after expenses. But you don't.

Mike Gatting

When asked 'Do you feel that the selectors and yourself have been vindicated by the result?' he said 'I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want.'

Sarah Lacy

When a PR person asks why is it a big deal that they got your name wrong or sent you a pitch on something you would never cover, it's because when you get hundreds of those a day, it's incredibly annoying. It's basically like having telemarketers call you all day long for something you never want to buy.

When any part of the world erupts in chaos, we send in the Marines. We ask them to do the hardest thing of all, to give their life for us,

We have made every change the commission has asked us to make to the technical documentation, and we are prepared to do more if they request it. Yesterday's announcement underscores Microsoft's commitment to meeting the commission's demands.

We have lots of questions to ask . . . and have an obligation to watch the growth of the system very carefully, ... There is the potential for fraud.

Dick Durbin

We have lost over 2,000 of our best and bravest. Over 15,000 have been seriously wounded, ... We are spending more than $6 billion a month, with no end in sight. And this Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee refuses to even ask the hard questions about the misinformation and disinformation given to the American people, and the efforts made by the members of this administration to cover it up.

We have lost about four weekends of work that we were going to pour concrete. And people are asking us why do we only pour concrete on the weekends. Well, we need to close couple lanes and we need three days for the concrete to cure.

We have learned to ask questions in ways to get responses and to use words they understand. We tell them what we are going to do before we do it.

will.i.am

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

Abraham Lincoln

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Vincent Cassel

People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.

William Wallace

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.