Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meredith Monk

In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It was at a festival in Bremen. The German audience went berserk and the reviews were a phenomenon. For some reason the German audience understood how technically challenging this music was; it wasn't just someone yelling their head off.

Paul Haggis

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

Mustafa Akyol

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Mstislav Rostropovich

My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'

We know our customers have asked for this type of a project.

Chipper Jones

Well, not for all of October. If they asked me to play again, I would certainly go to camp for a week or so to prepare for it, but not a month.

Two weeks ago traders thought there was no chance. If you had asked me Thursday, I would have said less than a 50 percent chance (of a December hike), at best I would have said a 50-50 chance. Now it looks pretty likely.

Those who fail to deliver will be asked to tender their resignation or risk being forced out in a shareholder revolt.

We were investigating RFID standards for the possibility of developing one or more RFID-related patent pools and in the mist of our investigation we were approached by several of the founders of the NFC Forum, who own intellectual property related to NFC. They asked us to develop a patent pool.

Melanie Chisholm

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.

Jim Allchin

To be clear, the reason why we're doing this is because they asked us to do this. To be clear, some would like for us to continue, and some wouldn't. So what we're trying to do is think about the whole industry, and we don't see any plan in change in terms of PC forecast.

Mack Brown

You know your life is different when the first call you get this morning is from President Bush at 6 o'clock and (my wife) Sally asked me if I was awake and wanted to take it. I said, 'I think so.

Harvey Korman

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

Hector Hugh Munro

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

I think everyone recognizes that this office was asked for a legal opinion. We view this solely as an issue of separation of powers.

I saw him (Robert) standing there, and I knew I had to say something. So I walked over and asked him where the baked beans were. We struck up a conversation, and I wound up inviting him to a dinner party we were having that night.

I see from the papers that my name has been sent in for Brigadier General. This is certainly very complimentary to me, particularly as I have never asked a friend to intercede in my behalf. Hearing that I was likely to be promoted, the officers, with

I saw the other horse close to the rail so I moved out a little to give myself some room in case anything happened and, sure enough, it did. But I was going to gather him in anyway, I felt. I knuckled him and he started to pick it up on his own and when I asked him in the stretch he went on real well. He's developing into a real nice horse.

I saw him holding his hand and asked if he was all right. He said he was. But you could just see when he went back out there that there was a little bit of a problem.

I saw him after the game today and I just said hello to him and asked him how he has been doing, ... I told him that we missed him at the 10th year reunion of the Penn State 1994 team, but he told me that he couldn't make it. With five kids, I guess that keeps him pretty busy. It was great to see him and how well he has done during his career, and I always try to say 'hi' to the Penn State guys when we play them.

I saw another student from Spain and I asked if I could go with him, but he said there was not enough room for me. Most of the exchange students lived in the dorms, so I took my documents and my money and some clothes and went running to the dorms looking for somebody.

I saw us losing it toward the end of the first half. We asked them to do specific things at halftime, and they didn't do it.

I said, I dont think so. I had an aunt and uncle here but they died 10 years ago, ... She asked me what their names were and when I said, Wally and Clare, she said, You do have relatives here. It turns out she knew my aunt and uncle better than I ever did.

Isaiah came to us and said 'I'm going to California this summer'. He asked us who the best trainer out there was because he wanted to get in shape.

Billy Donovan

I said to those guys, we're doing a thing now and I'm probably going to be asked some questions beforehand and/or after and I said what I would like to do is say something. They were like, 'Yeah, yeah Coach, that would be great.' Now the whole thing they did I didn't know. I just told them I was going to paint a picture and say I don't know what those guys' futures were.

I sat down with Sharon and asked her how many people can we hire with the space we have?

I sat down by her and realized how tall she was. She was already about 5-foot-10, and I asked her if she'd ever thought about playing volleyball.

Ironically...at 300 takeoffs and landings a day, nobody asked us to ever do a tortoise check. But before I can clear a spaceship to land, I have to do a tortoise check of the primary runway.

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.

OPEC has been quietly asked to ease pressure on the world economy,

People are being asked to vote for three candidates; should be asked to vote for only two.

People are being asked to do more and more. I think the state should be paying much more than they are.

Our kids were patient, just like I asked them to be.