Famous Quotes & Sayings

We pride ourselves on empowering ordinary citizens to be the Sierra Club where they live. In essence we're asking local leaders to be members of boards of directors in local organizations and to run them. We're asking them to take on administrative tasks, which has to come with the territory of being a leader, but it's not something that they initially got involved with the Sierra Club to do.

We pressed, we ran, we played good, hard defense. These kids did everything I asked them to. They played with the heart of a lion, we just didn't come out with the result that we wanted.

We prayed throughout the building to ask God to make it pleasing to him.

Steve Wilkos

My wife gets asked all the time, 'Ugh, how can you be married to that guy?' She's like, 'Hey, he's not yelling and screaming at me!'

Vanessa Minnillo

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

Trey Parker

If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave.

Teri Garr

I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me, 'What's your favorite movie?' And I never know what to say.

Theo James

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

Tom Sturridge

There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.

Torsten Wiesel

After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.

Tim Wakefield

I'm honored. Really honored that the Red Sox have asked me to possible be on the board of the Red Sox Foundation and do some stuff on their charitable works that they are so passionate about.

Todd Lowe

If I could ask for any life, I'd like to be the lead singer and guitarist for Willie Nelson & Family. That is to say, Willie.

Bill Burr

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

Vint Cerf

When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.

Vicente Fox

What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

Vince Staples

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

I thought we had a good season. If we would ever have gotten that extra scorer, we'd have been tough to beat . . . It was our offense that let us down. My kids really did everything I asked them to do. They always worked hard, and I really thought we had a chance to win it.

I thought the preparation for the autumn was spot-on. We are asking Martin (Corry) and the team to play at their very best, and we want to give them every opportunity to do that.

I thought that the object of a business was to be noncompetitive. I told my father I wanted a change. He said to me I would inherit the company, but I replied that I didn't ask for it.

I thought we broke well and created some great chances. As a coach, you can't ask for more.

Joe Torre

I thought today was very significant for him. This the most pressure you could be asked to pitch under when everybody expects you to win, you get one run and pitch up to those standards.

I think were asking a little too much to think about it having that kind of impact. But it's not going to do any damage whatsoever. It would be nice to see some effect from it. It's going to be a pretty important final month for Matt.

I think we're getting better each game and tonight we closed the game better than we've been doing. This is the focus that we want to generate on a team with this much depth and I ask them to come to practice with the same attitude, to improve.

I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do.

David Paul

I think we'll have to be prudent about not asking for too much but enough for the district to continue improving.

I think we have a very, very generous program here, The students are being asked to bear all of the misery. ... The university employees are not bearing any of the misery.

I think, Wednesday, you can expect people to come on out. We've just asked for an extended lunch hour for office workers.

I think we did good overall. We just need to fix those little things to be that great team. We hit the ball, we scored runs. We can't ask for much more.

I think we'd be hard-pressed to find many people with the generosity of Curt Gowdy. He did whatever we asked and more.

Scott Aukerman

I think that 'Mr. Show' was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I was asked to do a bit at The Comedy Store, and B.J. Porter and I went to see Bob and David - who I'd never heard of - do a live show, which was one of the shows that got them the 'Mr. Show' show.

Frank Robinson

I thought overall it was a very good year. We had a good first half and a terrible second half. In spring training, if you asked people what would you be happy with, I think they would have said they would be happy with a .500 record.

I thought our offensive line played pretty well tonight, and I think they're getting better. I think (Ridley) is starting to understand what we're asking of him. Stevan has a lot of talent, and he's starting to understand he has to do the things Coach (Matt) Mason and I want him to do. He's done that the last two weeks, and it's showed on both sides of the ball.

Terry Hoeppner

I think we won a bunch of our games (over the years) for him on his birthday, so this one was for him, ... All he ever asked for was a win, and that's what we were able to do.