Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Harper

I have never been so proud of our great country, and I am honored and overwhelmed to be asked to lead it.

Roxane Gay

I have never been married. I don't know if I will ever marry, though I hope to. When I am asked why I have not married, I explain that my parents have been happily married for 42 years. The bar feels so very high for that kind of commitment.

I have never been asked to do anything like this before. The exposure is tremendous.

Kevin Spacey

I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch 'Amex Be Inspired' and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.

Willie Geist

I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacation, and he was asked about Iraq, and he said 'I'm buying shrimp.' You think that wouldn't be a headline everywhere?

Bill Parcells

If I'm going to be asked to cook the meal, I'd like to be able to pick the groceries.

I felt like a celebrity! People screamed, 'Patrick, we love you!' and asked for autographs.

I feel very ripped off. We've been in compliance and done everything the city has asked us to do, and it doesn't make a difference because people are going to hire their family, their friends, whoever they please.

Mike Aviles

I finished my workout, but stayed to watch the game. I sat near him. He looked over and asked me if I was from New York, because of the way I laced my sneakers. So we got talking.

Mario Testino

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

Madeline Kahn

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

Vinny Testaverde

I feel great -- after that win. It was a great homecoming. I couldn't have asked for anything more than the way it went.

I feel fine. I couldn't have asked for more. I don't feel like I'm being held back by anything. I don't feel like I'm being slowed down. I'm playing the way I play, and that's how I'm going about my business.

Tony Meola

I feel personally like I failed in my mission here. After speaking to a bunch of guys on the team I think that's the sentiment. We failed a good guy and a good coach. He asked us to take this and use it however we can to get better, to get closer as a tam and to get more determined.

Orson Card

I did it just because my friend asked me to, ... There was a real lack of black male role-model-type heroes in fiction, and he wanted to have a writer he likes do that.

Jasmine Tookes

I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.

I can tell you without challenge that I have asked Bobby to please take some time to rest and spend quality time away from the job.

I can tell you nobody has ever asked me and I've never had a conversation with a union about a quid pro quo, ... It's just not the way I do business.

If I was asked about my wildest dreams, I would never have considered this.

Martin Clunes

I found out when I was 18 that Dad had left my mother and the family before he realised he was ill and then died. When I asked Mum about it, she just sort of shrugged it off and said she'd thought I knew about it all along. Of course I hadn't, though I'm sure she must have been desperately unhappy at the time.

Robert Scoble

I have been talking to lots of people today, though, inside and outside of Microsoft. In every instance, they asked me to keep those conversations confidential. Why? Cause we're talking about international relations here--and the lives of employees.

I have contacted council members in northern Utah cities that use districting and asked them about it. They all said it was an effective form of government.

I have curly hair, so once (the mustache) gets out it starts going in 65 different directions, ... So now I have to wax it to control it. I asked the kids if I could get rid of it and they said 'No.'

Marcello Lippi

I have called Maldini to try and convince him to return, but he has asked me to respect his decision to retire. From our point of view, we won't be asking him again.

Jane Greer

I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.'

I didn't mention anything about the sidewalk sale, and when my dad got to the store on Monday morning, people were lined up to get in. My dad asked them what they were doing there. They told him they were there to buy more of the sidewalk sale bargains they had purchased last week,

Errol Morris

I didn't make Gates of Heaven so that Werner Herzog would have to eat his shoe. It's not as if I decided to realize my potential as a human being in order to get somebody to ingest something distasteful. I specifically asked Werner not to eat his shoe.

I didn't give nothing to nobody. I was over at the store drinking coffee, and he asked me if he could put my name down. Whenever he asked me, I really didn't think nothing of it. It was something about the poker machines.

I did not make up the recipes, I simply used a lot of the recipes I have used for years and years and asked for recipes from other people. It's uncomplicated cooking. These are really the recipes we have known and loved and the reason they're in this cookbook is because they're comforting, and that's what we need when there's been a death.

Meghan Trainor

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

Scott Hartnell

I didn't believe it at first. I was supposed to sign a new contract that day, and they asked me to wait because they had bigger news.

Andy Griffith

I did the 'Crook and Chase' show while I was in Nashville. They asked me if I had a church background, and when I said I was born a Baptist, that got the audience on fire. They must have all been Baptists.

I don't know what to say about this group. We were all over the floor, we were doing everything. It's just a great bunch of kids who have done everything we've asked them to. They are such a strong team, and they played their hearts out.