Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't know that I could've asked for anything more today.

J. J. Johnson

I don't know. We asked him after. He said, 'Don't worry about it, don't worry about it.'

I don't know when it happened. But when I asked him in the second half, he said he couldn't go. These are things that happen to a team, but you have to have other guys step up.

I don't know what Peter's epitaph would be, I never asked him what he would like it to be. But certainly, I would say he lived for excellence, as a friend, as a father, as a journalist, as a man.

I don't care how it turns out now. I couldn't have asked them to play any better.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

I came up here to be a small town cop. I'd seen about all I'd wanted to of the big city. I asked myself, 'What have I gotten into?'

I am confident that Mike will provide positive leadership in the new direction that Gov. Blunt has asked the department to pursue.

Charlize Theron

I am a huge fan of the show, and I'm very picky with my comedy. I don't get to do comedy very often, and when they asked me, I jumped at the opportunity. I was ready to do something for fun.

Tommy Amaker

I am biased to our seniors. I am very much attached to that group of players. They are the type of players you always want to be in your program. They have done anything and everything we've asked them to do.

Jeremy Irons

I always wanted to do more plays but I never quite understood how you got asked to do a play. I had done house plays, but they were sort of skits.

David Beckham

I am honored to have been asked to go to Singapore for what will be a historic vote,

I am extremely proud of these kids. I asked them to work hard, believe and not give me any more gray hair. Two out of three ain't bad.

I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.

Don Cooper

I bet if you asked McCarthy about pitching in the bullpen, developing, getting his feet wet and learning a new tool to make himself an asset to the organization and to benefit himself, or whether he wants to go to Triple-A and pitch, you know the answer.

The public asked to be protected from toxic mercury and the governor delivered.

Prakash Karat

We have asked the Commission to ensure specific guidelines where the state administration can play a coordinating role.

We have asked for state legislative support, and we are pleased that the county is working with our federal elected officials to try and bring money back to these projects.

We have asked for an independent medical team to examine the president to examine the bruises inflicted on him which are still there on his body.

We have asked EU to consider our proposals to relax country origin rules.

Princess Anne

We urge the countries which have committed assistance to provide it and I've asked the United Nations to push donor countries to fulfill those commitments,

Sam Donaldson

We understand the investigation is continuing, and we have been asked by authorities not to comment further at this time.

Gurinder Chadha

Constantly, I've been asked to make a sequel to 'Beckham.' However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage.

When I was asked to play 'Miss Marple,' I was given the Kevin Elyot script for 'The Body in the Library.' I was a fan of his theatre work anyway, and I just thought it was brilliant. I was immediately taken by 'Miss Marple,' so I read some of the novels, and I knew I had to do it.

Bobby Cox

I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.

Allison Tolman

Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.

Aidan Gillen

I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We did have a nice time on the train on the way back.

I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

Sullivan Stapleton

My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.

I've written for 'The Times' because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The 'New Statesman' magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.

I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.