Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's doing very well. He was in a pretty good mood. I asked if he had much pain and as of last night, no, he felt pretty good.

The Padres asked us to find a consistent backup man. Steve did a nice job for us on Aztecs basketball, he's well known in San Diego, so he was a very logical and very good choice.

Dave Brubeck

The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adams, Meredith Monk and David Lang) to fill in what Mozart left out,

When they first decided that they were going to do this, they called me into the meeting and they asked me a lot of questions about what we needed. My background is in theater, so I came to it from that direction. We've got a great sound system. We've got 24 wireless body mikes and it's the neatest acoustical theater that I've been in for a long time.

Mike Miller

Under Cherokee Nation law we don't have marriage licenses; we have marriage certificates. Since this ruling, no one has asked to have that certificate certified.

Lorraine Bracco

Well, you know, we've been asked not to speak so it's really hard.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Jimmy Bennett

I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch TV.

George H. W. Bush

He was straight, to the point, asked the tough question, but never had a kind of edge that put people off guard, ... I don't know what they're going to do there at CNN. But I think that they must know, in losing Bernie Shaw they've lost an icon.

He was so ill, but the spirit was still there. We brought cake but forgot the ice cream, so of course, the first thing he asked for was ice cream.

He was not asked to leave. He has been invited to join this prominent Latino organization, and he has decided to do so.

John Nash

I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering.

Amanda Holden

I always felt sorry for the students who were asked to play sad, old characters.

Geoff Jenkins

He was a great player. We were doing our outfield drills today and I asked Davey Nelson and Gary Pettis to tell us some Kirby stories. They were telling us about some of the good times they had with him. It was nice.

I was grinning and laughing on 14 and my caddie asked me why, and I wouldn't tell him. I just felt I couldn't go wrong and that feeling is such a good feeling. I wish I could have that every day. All of a sudden today, everything seemed to go in.

Matthew Pearl

I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.

I was finding a lot of room to move about out there. The pack slowed up a bit on the backstretch, and I saw an opening. ... I asked her a little bit, and she went.

John Calipari

I was so proud of Rodney Carney today. It would be so easy for Rodney to play for himself right now. It would easy for him to just go out and do it himself. I grabbed Rodney and said 'you are defending and we will try to give you some shots. Rodney said I am fine. At one point in the second half I asked if you want me to run something to get you going and he said I am fine. He defended and blocked shots today. Four blocks shows how far he has come and what he means to the team.

I was really surprised to get it, to tell you the truth. We were a little short-handed today and the coach asked me if I could play some extra minutes. I said ?fine,? but I was really tired late in the game.

Jacki Weaver

I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

I wouldn't have known it was going on today but my friend called up and told me and asked me to come out and vote.

I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

I guess I'm not surprised the unions are unhappy with the adjustments they are being asked to make, and I am not surprised they banded together to try to get a better deal,

E. P. Thompson

I guess I get asked more about that game than anything else,

I guess if I had to attribute it (the turnaround), it was just the fact that the kids have done what we've asked them as a coaching staff and some of those things have turned out to their benefit, which has helped their confidence. The kids have responded very well and they've worked very hard.

Michael Baker

If we receive a request under that legislation, then we would handle it in the routine way we would handle any such request, and routinely we have granted the request for an investigation if asked by the appropriate council,

If we're asked not to proceed, or ordered not to proceed, then we won't. That's the plan.

Rahul Bajaj

If we had done this 10 years ago, people would have asked what is there in India. But for the last few years, the whole world has been looking at India and investing in India, so there is an Indian story to be told.

If we had come here and finished second two years in a row, it would have hurt so bad. These have been the greatest bunch of kids I could have ever asked to work with. They just never quit and refused to lose.

Shawne Merriman

I got tripped up and got my knee driven straight into the ground. I'm feeling pretty good now. They just didn't want to risk it. I actually asked to go out in the second half and play.

I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.

I got selfish tonight. This is my last Manual game so I asked them to win it for me.

I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!