Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is both an honour and a privilege to be asked to lead NBC News. The power of the brand, the scale of the legacy, the depth of the talent all make this organisation truly great.

Dannii Minogue

They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously.

Lloyd Carr

The question I was asked before the season was, 'Would you be disappointed to not be in the Sugar Bowl?' ... I can tell you, I would never be disappointed to take a team to the Rose Bowl. To play in that stadium -- outdoors, on grass, in the sunshine -- how could you be disappointed?

The question I get asked most often by the channel is are we going to continue to be focused on innovation? Partners want to succeed, to grow& (and that's) something we're focused on doing with them. We're looking at expanding in Canada, going deeper into the mid-market. We will work with them more closely.

The question I get asked most often by the channel is are we going to continue to be focused on innovation? Partners want to succeed, to grow& (and that's) something we're focused on doing with them. We're looking at expanding in Canada, going deeper into the mid-market. We will work with them more closely.

The question has to be asked in Brussels.

The Queen Tamale herself cam in and asked to order some things.

Bill Jones

Times have sure changed. Yesterday a bum asked me if I could spare $2.75 for a double cappuccino with no foam.

Tracey was straight up with me and said she asked Ian to swim a series of 50m drills at a certain pace that was close to race speed and he wasn't able to produce the goods.

Toyota was searching for perfection and wanted the highest rating in every individual category, not just a good overall evaluation, so the company made a minor change in the wiring to some of the LS 430's airbag sensors and asked for another test.

This strike did not have to occur. We made our top issues clear months ago and simply asked Boeing to do the right thing for their work force.

Nina Garcia

Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions.

Cory Hardrict

To be honest, I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I'd be like, 'Me? I haven't done anything yet !' I have much more to offer the world.

Chris Squire

I think the first three Rickenbacker basses were imported around 1964. Pete Quaife, the bassist for The Kinks, bought one. Then John Entwistle from The Who bought one. As for the third one, I asked the manager of the store if I could get an employee discount. He said I could, and so I picked up that one.

Norman Reedus

I don't have a mullet, but going into season one on 'The Walking Dead,' I asked to have a mullet, and everybody talked me out of it. Because I'd have to wear a mullet when we were not shooting every day. I have that motorcycle, wings on my vest, the crossbow... Maybe a mullet would've thrown me over the edge.

Dinaw Mengestu

Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.

Dinaw Mengestu

The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.

Donald Evans

I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well.

Peter O'Toole

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'

Pauline Marois

I can assure you the hemorrhaging has stopped. I asked remaining caucus members if they adhered to the party program, if they would stay in the PQ and that they would be by my side. They all said yes.

Persis Khambatta

Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.

We played with a lot of intensity tonight. We asked our girls to give themselves an opportunity to win. They played really hard and fought back in the fourth quarter. We gave ourselves an opportunity, but we just needed another shot or two to fall.

We played a little scared and I don't know why. We asked ourselves Sunday what we needed to do differently and we still don't know.

We played a hard game tonight but there was poor coaching on my part. I thought we prepared enough for them to stop some things, but I did not do a good enough job. The girls did what I asked them to do and played hard, but NFC was the better team.

We pressed, we ran, we played good, hard defense. These kids did everything I asked them to. They played with the heart of a lion, we just didn't come out with the result that we wanted.

Steve Wilkos

My wife gets asked all the time, 'Ugh, how can you be married to that guy?' She's like, 'Hey, he's not yelling and screaming at me!'

Theo James

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

Torsten Wiesel

After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.

Tim Wakefield

I'm honored. Really honored that the Red Sox have asked me to possible be on the board of the Red Sox Foundation and do some stuff on their charitable works that they are so passionate about.

Vint Cerf

When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.

I thought we had a good season. If we would ever have gotten that extra scorer, we'd have been tough to beat . . . It was our offense that let us down. My kids really did everything I asked them to do. They always worked hard, and I really thought we had a chance to win it.

Joe Torre

I thought today was very significant for him. This the most pressure you could be asked to pitch under when everybody expects you to win, you get one run and pitch up to those standards.

I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do.