Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Levin

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

Within weeks of signing federal legislation that siphons off more than $39 billion from essential health and human service programs including Medicaid, Child Support and Child Welfare services, the President released a budget that assures, yet again, that Pennsylvania's vulnerable citizens as well as state and local governments will be asked to shoulder an undue and growing fiscal burden.

When the government was asked to justify their demand they conceded that they needed much less.

Oliver Sacks

When the documentary of 'Awakenings' was made in '73, the first thing the film director asked was, 'Could we meet the music therapist? She seems to be the most important person around here,'

Tom Wilson

When we play at home or whenever our bench is on the right, I put all the right side of my equipment on first. The other night I played at Florida for the first time and I asked somebody which side our bench was on.

We are doing what the residents have asked us to do. It is no different than what has been done for decades, at least. The lake is used for recreation by the residents, and it is not our intention to do anything they are opposed to.

We are doing what the DPUC has asked us to do.

The President said that it shall not be considered a solitary case and asked the National Police chief to investigate the case of forced prostitution and other related cases.

Linda Chavez

Unfortunately, because of the way the stories have played over the last few days, I have decided that I am becoming a distraction, and therefore I have asked President Bush to withdraw my name for secretary of labor,

Robert Novak

Two senior administration officials told me his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him.

Two of my friends who are pros on the tour put me on the pro doubles association calendar and asked if I wanted to have a tournament, so I said yes.

Stephanie Davis

When someone asked me to dinner for the first time over text message, I found it more than a little insulting. So I sent him a reply suggesting that he pick up the phone and ask me out properly. I never heard from him again.

When Sirius asked me if I wanted to program a channel committed solely to Elvis, it was a no-brainer. Everybody has an Elvis connection. I don't care who you are or where you're from, you know who Elvis is. This is no gimmick; we're not going away.

When Sir Humphry Davy returned from a visit to Paris he was asked how the picture galleries had impressed him. "The finest collection of frames I ever saw," he said.

When she went to the kindergarten to pick up the child, the teachers questioned her and asked her if she was a family member. When she said she wasn't, the teachers wouldn't let the child go as they thought it could be dangerous.

Angela Davis

When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I didn't know where that came from because I had never skated and none of her friends had either.

When she asked me to do it she's not very tall my mind wasn't exactly going towards the steeple.

Scott Phillips

When Scott asked me to marry him and I said 'yes,' I realized that moment was bigger than getting married. 'I'm going to stay. I'm actually going to commit to this.'

Martin Rees

When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture.

Frank Oz

I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.

Christopher Lee

I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.

Christopher Lee

Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'

OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.

Jacqueline Bisset

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

Gary Kovacs

When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want some sites to understand my habits. It helps them suggest books for me to read or movies for my family to watch or friends for us to connect with.

We learned within Trailblazer that when we asked industry for something they had or something close to what they already had, they were remarkable in providing us a response, an outcome, ... When we asked them for something that no one had yet invented, they weren't any better at inventing it than we were in doing it ourselves.

John Scofield

We have concerns about how they got to this reported crisis. We've given them everything they've asked for. That should get them through it.

We?re still up 2 games to 1, we still have the home ice advantage. If you asked me before the series if I?d like to be up 2-1 going into Game 4, I would have said yes. We?d like to be up 3-0, but those are the breaks.

Alan King

Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'

Alexa Chung

When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.

Gloria Steinem

When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.

Bill Engvall

I came out of the mall one day, and a guy was standing there with a coat hanger in his window, and I couldn't stop myself. I asked the stupid question. 'You lock your keys in the car?' 'Nope, just washed it, gonna hang it up to dry.'

Buffalo Bill

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.