Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guests ask for her constantly. You could fill up the restaurant with people asking for her.

Gordon Taylor

Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future?

Greg Behrendt

Most authors writing books like 'He's Just Not That Into You' dream of doing what I was being asked to do. I didn't like it. I'm good at giving advice, but doing it on TV and radio felt wrong, and when people resisted my point of view, I was like, 'Why am I doing this? This was not the plan.' So I stopped. It didn't make me feel good.

George P. Shultz

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

Sam Simon

There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

Thomas Piketty

The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

Tony Stewart

I've got more stuff asked of me every week. But I drive a race car for a living. My car owner lets me race as many sprint car races as I want to run.

Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more.

Teju Cole

We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not really gonna give me plot. You're gonna give me sort of linked narrative. And I wanted to see how do we bring that into fiction without losing the reader.

Tanit Phoenix

I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.

Stephen Sondheim

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

Stephen Colbert

When I got to 'The Daily Show,' they asked me to have a political opinion. It turned out that I had one, but I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

I asked my designer friend, Sam Klemick, to make a headdress for me, drawing inspiration from 1920s headpieces, Athena and Joan of Arc. Before each show, I have this quiet meditative moment where I put the headdress on and gather my thoughts and strength.

Sophie Hannah

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

This was a great building with all of the latest materials handling systems you could ask for. But it didn't have a warehouse management system (WMS) that could meet the demands of our customers.

Steve Simmons

This was one of those games where you just have to roll up the sleeves and ask the legs to move. One of the toughest things to do at the Division-I level is play a fresh team.

We are going to need to fill the vacancies. The council asked for names to discuss at their next meeting.

Corin Tucker

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

The only thing that I ask for is their maximum effort. If we give that, hopefully we can win a couple more games.

John Lasseter

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

Darren Gough

The only thing I've asked England for is communication and that's been good,

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word.

For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'

Today, if you walk down the street and ask the first 20 people who the heavyweight champion is, they don't know the answer, and that's a crime. There should be one heavyweight champion. Having more than one heavyweight champion is like having more than one president.

Kofi Annan

Today I ask all the parties to bring to an end the violence that for 24 years has caused untold suffering to East Timor,

To combat heart disease, the No.1 killer in New York City, we are asking restaurants to voluntarily make an oil change,

David Lyons

What you see architecturally is what you get with personalities here. It's very much a sense of conformity. I became very unpopular because I dared to ask questions.

What you're seeing is that inflation is rising, ... It's still at a low level, but you know what the trend is. The question to ask is, How much is too much? At what point does the Fed say it's risen enough that we don't want it to go any higher? That's the difficult question to answer.

What you're doing is, you're paying $22.8 million for the privilege of putting up $100 million. At that point, you'd ask why would you need the middleman?

What we've seen is, when you ask them to do more, they do.

What we've got to do is educate the union. Right now, what they're asking is just totally unrealistic. They need to get realistic about debt revenue and not gross revenue. That's where the big disconnect is.