Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,which, however, I did not promise to do.Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partitionshouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, 'Think of it!He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers.'

Donald Rumsfeld

More -- much more -- will be asked of you in the weeks and months ahead. This is especially true of those who are in the field.

(Morgan) helped me with my math homework. I also asked her some things about golf. She said she was missing the first month of school competing in tournaments. I congratulated her on the U.S. Open and she said the experience was amazing. She really wanted to win.

Kobe Bryant

My hand was bothering me. It was tough for me to shoot the ball. I asked the team to put up the steam a little bit.

Steve Sampson

My guys did what they're supposed to do, ... They held their positions like I asked them to. We just took care of business.

My grandfather got on the train in Milford to go to Philly and see Mr. Mack. He just walked into his office and asked him for one of his three top pitchers.

My father never got to see me much, but he always asked how I did. Every time I am on the court, I want to show him and his family what I am capable of.

My family, we've been working here for 15 years. We never asked for any government money. We can't, because we're working with illegal documents. The only thing we can do is just work.

Maybe the president made a very good move when he asked you to leave your job. ... You get an F-minus in my book.

Mark Twain

Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)

John Harvey Kellogg

Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.

Robert Reed

Now, the city's asked us to look at dog waste specifically.

O Baba, write such an account, that when it is asked for, it will bring the Mark of Truth.

Larry Brown

Never asked anything of my players any different than I'm doing right now. Think about that. So the bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. If you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me. You owe it to your teammates to do that every single night if you care about the right things.

Nebraska has asked us to keep that closed because they have traffic so backed up.

(News Corp. executive) Peter Chernin asked me why don't we think about a postgame show the same way we think about a pregame show, ... That's not a bad thought.

Newman threw pretty well for her first time out. After Jeter threw 18 innings (Monday), we asked Dominique to get us three or four innings. She got us into the fourth and that?s what we wanted from her. She did a nice job.

Steve Forbes

New Hampshire is unique in that all the presidential candidates come here because of your first-in-the-nation status. If we can get New Hampshire on board, all the candidates will be asked about this concept repeatedly. If we leave Washington to its own devices, nothing will happen.

Sean Casey

Obviously the message, or the brand, or what you see it won't be consistent. But it isn't a big issue. If it was a big issue Wayne would be asked to do what everybody else is doing. He and his people know what works in that district and the P.E.I. campaign and the national campaign trust his judgement on these things.

Obviously, Juan came into camp in great shape. He was hitting around .350 or .360 with Memphis. And he's played defense well. He did everything we asked him to do.

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it

Given that judicial authorities are independent we will not be interfering, but we have asked them to deal speedily, but without rashness, with the case,

Gillespie ... was asked to go back to domestic cricket and find some form.

Freddie is a chip off the old block. As a player, he was like another coach on the floor. He was our point guard and he was completely unselfish. He could read defenses like a gem and he'd do whatever was asked of him.

Mariano Puerta

Four or five days ago I was on holiday but the ATP called and asked if I wanted to come as the second alternate,

Francis asked if we could bring up our medical brigade in January of 2005.

Frequent examinations should be made on collieries that have been asked to shut down and those that were required to enhance safety measures.

O. Henry

From our perspective, we want to support the baseball classic but it's actually a plus for us he's coming here on March 1 and not going there, but we haven't asked him not to play. I think it's going to work out very well.

Mark Frauenfelder

Forrest Mims is the author of the famous book 'Getting Started in Electronics,' published by RadioShack for many years. I bought the book in the 1980s and had a blast making the projects in it. When I was editor-in-chief of 'MAKE,' I asked Forrest to write a column for the magazine, called 'The Backyard Scientist.'

FSB contacted us and asked how they could help.

From the whole country there's been an outpouring of love and resources and support, ... It was difficult to leave, but I was in the last group to take their break. The NFL has been doing so much for the city of New Orleans and for the Saints, when they asked me to flip the coin I couldn't deny that.

From the Eastchester game to now, it's been an unbelievable ride. ... They've worked hard every single day and done everything we've asked of them. They really deserve this.

Robert Townsend

If asked when you can deliver something, ask for time to think. Build in a margin of safety. Name a date. Then deliver it earlier than you promised. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.