Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.

We want the culvert covers removed. We asked for a specific design, but the city decided to use their standard design, and now our high ground is flooding.

We developed some uniform guidelines for filling the Schultueten. Parents were asked to fill them with healthy treats.

Jennifer Grant

In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.

Matt Barnes

What we're being asked to do is not really to score. It's just to go in there and play defense and rebound and bring energy, and I think we do a good job of doing that.

Charles Krauthammer

When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France

When I did this show four years ago, which was a very intense and emotional experience for me, I felt like that was a once-in-a-lifetime experience -- never thinking that four years later I would be asked to put something similar together again.

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Rory Kinnear

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

Robbie Robertson

When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'

When it was tied up in the Senate I asked the Town Council to make some calls. Did I get any help from them? No. They laid down their guns and walked away.

Johnny Damon

When it was asked if I would represent my country, there was no hesitation. I am proud to live in a land with freedom where we can even have this type of baseball tournament. Rest assured it will be great days for fans. It's just awesome to represent our country.

The panel asked us to work privately and quietly and we're doing everything we can to honor their requests.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

Sharon Stone

When I started acting, I was asked said, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna happen.

Tommy Bond

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

What we do at this point . . . because it's not a pending election, is that we have asked the people involved to provide their response (to the complaints).

What we know at this point, we could not have asked for a better outcome.

There are some tough questions that need to be asked here.

There are some things they've asked us to do as part of the new cardiac specialty care that we can't do because we don't have the equipment.

Robin Day

The only request to the schools was to utilize the money for something other than enrichment, ... We asked the schools to purchase something tangible that the school budget would not cover.

Godfrey Gao

My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.

We've been in contact with the authorities in Mississippi and Louisiana and indicated our willingness to help out, but we've not been asked for help yet.

Dick Ebersol

We're asked that question every time before an Olympics, and I really don't believe it's going to happen. The Olympics are unique. People come in large numbers . . . to really be engaged by these very unique athletes who put so much on the line for such a brief, brief period of their athletic careers.

Robert McDonald

We're asked by our company to form relationships with elected officials, so that they know who Emerson is and so that we have some open doors and people to communicate with on key concerns.

We have zero plays. All I asked my players to do was play a 'little' defense.

We honestly asked ourselves, 'Will people live in this environment?' ... We've got critters, we've got heat, we've got humidity.

Yesterday at practice, I asked for a show of hands from the players that had beaten Munster in a team sport. Not one hand went up in the room. Tomorrow, I'll ask the same question.

Mike Piazza

Yes, no question. If you would have asked me, I'm telling you, in San Francisco, there's no way I thought I'd be able to play. This week I'm a lot more optimistic.

Yes, I've been working with Trojan for some time now. They teamed me up with The Specials and asked me to do some old Ska songs. It was fun.

We were disappointed they wouldn't even review it. All we asked them was to just look at it, and they were unwilling to do so.

We have responded to the Premier League by pointing out this is a compulsory tournament so I don't see why we should be asked to pay compensation.