Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!'

Mr. Stroh is the one who asked me to try out for the program and it's been an incredible experience. I don't regret one single moment. When I was younger and wanted to pursue singing, Mr. Stroh gave me that push.

Manisha Koirala

Mrs Giri had told me about this interesting project. And she'd asked me to help her find the right people to work out the venture. So I simply carried out the initial introductions. I'm glad this venture is finally on its way to being performed.

John Carney

Mayor, you asked for our best work. We think we've given it to you.

Meghan asked me if she could be an assistant coach. Her presence around the team is so important. She is so respected and liked by all the girls that we felt honored for her to be back with us.

Rita Rudner

Men hate to lose. I beat my husband once at tennis. I asked him, "Will we ever make love again?" He said, "Yes.... but not with each other.

Measure 37 was not a vote on land use. Measure 37 was a clear message that government needs to treat people fairly. It is too bad that the means offered was Measure 37. At some point Oregonians will look at this and decide whether this law is the kind of fairness they asked for.

Bob Huggins

My intention is to do everything in my power to meet whatever conditions I'm asked to do by my superiors.

My last match was very enjoyable. I couldn't have asked for better conditions or better fans. Everybody on the team fought really hard and everyone did the right things, it just didn't work out in our favor.

My friend invented Cliff's Notes. When I asked him how he got such a great idea, he said, "Well, first I... I just... well, to make a long story short...

My first year as president I went around and asked what Marist had to work on. He said, 'He who whispers down a well about the things he has to sell will never have as many dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.' I never forgot that.

David Payne

One of the things that will be very positive about the new test is that the students are going to see the direct relevance to the types of questions they are being asked to what they will be doing in their graduate programs.

One of the witnesses asked (Fountain) how Kendrick received the injury. He said (the child) fell down.

One question I get asked a lot, ... is why we think this is such a problem. It's kind of like speeding. If law enforcement stopped writing tickets, it would get way out of hand. That's been our experience. If we don't keep working on the enforcement, it starts to multiply on its own out there. If you have a rule, you have to keep enforcing it. You can't look the other way.

One of the things I'm most pleased about is that, so far, everyone we asked to come on the board accepted--it's a who's who of racing,

One of the things that Sara Jane was asked in court yesterday by Deputy District Attorney Eleanor Hunter was, 'Are you pleading guilty because you are in truth and in fact guilty and do you stipulate that there is a factual basis for the guilty plea?' to which she replied, 'Yes.' In light of what she said after walking out of court, we can only assume she was lying to the judge, or lying to the press to save face. The judge is obviously concerned.

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

Lesley Nicol

One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.

One of our reporters asked me if we would be scared of the environment. We know it's going to be loud, but it's easier to get excited for a game like that rather than 500 people. We have good crowds here and (opposing) teams play well and are emotional.

One of our goals was serving. All the girls did a very good job. I don't think we started missing serves until that last game. They all did real well. All I asked for them was to challenge each pass and I think they did a good job, each one of them.

One of our customers asked which patch they should deploy if there starts to be a lot of third-party patches. I told them, it's just like picking a dentist or a plumber -- you're going to go with someone who's got a good reputation.

One man told me he asked his wife to marry him on our front porch years ago.

One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she did. She said, 'It was more.'

One little boy in a red shirt said that he wanted one of the pencils and notebooks that they had helped unload and he asked if he could have one, ... A teacher said she would make sure he got one.

One memory that just really stood out in my mind was our first home basketball game. She had some time before the game started. Each one of the girls came up to her, and she asked them how they wanted their hair done. They sat in front of her and she did their hair in blue and yellow ribbons.

Alice Oswald

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

Obviously, we got off to a slow start. I asked a couple of my players if they wanted to go home.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?'

O. Henry

Of course I thought about leaving. I asked myself a lot of questions at Christmas time.

Ellen Galinsky

No one had ever asked young people about the issues they face growing up. I don't think this changes the fact that adults need to be in charge; I'm not asking children to run the families of America. . . . But their insight about their lives is actually fairly interesting input into our lives.

Craig Biggio

No, not at all. I think if second base didn't go as well as it has, I might have missed it, but I always wanted to catch and once I got here, after four years they asked me to move. You do what you have to do in order to stay in the big leagues.