Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ties are never as good as wins. All I asked them before the game was to play real hard and be as fast as they could. They could make all the mistakes that they wanted to make as long as they played hard and they did that.

Three or four. I asked our trainer if I could get a nose job at the end of the year. We'll see what happens.

Travis did a great. I was worried about him, since he caught that first game in the heat. I asked him to go home, get cooled down, and come back to pitch.

Andy Marte

When I first saw him, he asked me if I had enjoyed it in Boston. I said, ?Yeah, you too.

Joseph Gatt

When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total 'Star Wars' geek and had boxes of 'Star Wars' toys in storage.

Roger Clemens

You knew when it got late, Phil looked at me, ... There's been three or four times throughout the year he asked me how I felt I was swinging the bat or if got my spikes handy. I didn't think he was serious, and he probably wasn't. But the look that he gave me this time was very serious, and there was no kidding about it. And so I got out to the bullpen.

Helmut Lang

I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do.

Howard Mumford Jones

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.

We got together with the people who run all these groups and told them there needs to be a uniform set of rules, like with boxing or any other combat sport. The people at UFC have complied with everything we've asked of them.

Reggie Evans

We got the win, that's the main thing. It wasn't personal what went down. I asked for a trade. It worked out in my favor. Now I'm here. On to bigger and better things now.

We got the phone call from a tour representative at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. They asked if we were still interested.

David Ward

We get asked all the time if people can buy their units.

We get a lot of complaints from readers about packaging that drives them crazy. We, too, have pet peeves about certain package designs. So we asked our readers for specifics, and we went out and bought the worst examples of horrific packaging we could find.

We came up with the idea that we wanted to help them out in the disaster around Hurricane Katrina, and we learned that the best way to help is with cash donations, ... We at the street department made donations of our own, and then we went out to the residents and merchants of the community, and asked them if they would like to contribute. No one turned us down. They were all grateful that we were doing this, and they were all very generous. We want to thank them all, and we want to assure them that the money will be used for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

We came up with a situation and asked the City Council for some clarification. This is what they told us.

We found a big ol' washeteria near here, so we'll be making a run to wash clothes (Sunday), ... Some of the kids, they left town with only one set of clothes, so they asked if they could go to Wal-Mart shopping. We'll be doing some of that.

Jim Murphy

We didn't even have to ask, ... They came to us and asked what they could do.

Olly Murs

My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

Olly Murs

I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.

We have had discussions with the observers, and the procedures have been outlined to them. The observers naturally wish to consult their capitals, and they have asked us to await the reply from the capitals.

We could not have asked for a more inspirational partner to create an equally inspirational and entertaining DVD series.

We have written to the Warriors outlining our preliminary findings and have asked for a response in writing by the close of business Friday.

We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.

Richard Attenborough

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.

Mark Zuckerberg

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'

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.'

Patti Smith

Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.

Stan Laurel

A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.

Rainbow Rowell

In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.