Famous Quotes & Sayings

These officers are desperate. They have done everything the city has asked them to do.

This is just a very, very, very frustrating feeling to watch these kinds of things happen on the floor. There were times I turned around and looked at my other coaches and just asked what was going on out there. You just can't win basketball games when you don't take care of the basketball and you don't rebound as a group. We did neither down the stretch when we had to.

This is intended to please some political factions who have asked for this. Their evaluation will probably solve this political crisis.

Kate Winslet

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'

Emma Bunton

On being asked where she stayed in France: 'Florence.'

David McIntosh

nothing of this magnitude ever happened in the Bush Administration. First of all, George Bush wouldn't have asked if it could happen, and then folks around him would have said, 'No, that's not appropriate.'

Not really. Jon has never asked me for anything and if he hasn't asked me I don't want to go and stick my nose in his business. He has done a pretty good job on his own. The Busch cars drive a little different, and I'm sure he's got guys on the Busch side that he talks to.

Nothing's decided. They asked me to come down and look at their situation and I said I would. I'm waiting to see what they're going to offer me and to hear from them what they're thinking. That's where it's at right now.

The New Order under Suharto was basically a system of tax farming. Your job was to get the bridge built and as long as it got built nobody asked questions.

After Steve and Bob split, Bob asked if I'd be willing to take over. I was honored.

Green Day

After the release of Nimrod, Tre's asked what Green Day will never do: We'll never sellout, we'll never sign to a major label, we'll never get played on MTV.

Steve Hawkins

After the meeting, I fell in love with him. Smart, intelligent, asked a lot of questions, asked the right questions. I was very impressed with him as a person.

Bob Arum

After the (Leon) Spinks loss (in February 1978), I asked him to promise me that he would never fight again.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

Bartolo Colon

Any time you get that close to completing the game, you want to. Mike came over and asked me, 'How do you feel?' I was a little fatigued. He said he didn't want to take any chances.

India is our home and we have nothing to hide in this case. We have asked the police commissioner for a meeting.

Howard Dean

In December, when we were just getting pounded by every other candidate, I asked Terry to step in because I thought it was getting kind of destructive, ... Terry decided to be neutral, so I suggest he still remain neutral.

In big time situations we couldn't have asked for better competitors.

Initially, the contact center was considered a service organization and was asked to do that as efficiently as possible. Quality monitoring as a contact center application is still very much involved in the initial goal of improving customer-facing processes. But importantly, it now has higher value for deriving customer intelligence.

In many cases they didn't have to provide a signature. Now we're being asked to provide more and more.

In May 2002, if you asked me anything about Martha Stewart, all of my responses would have been positive.

Julianne Moore

In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.

In my conversations with DNR personnel, bridges that are in now are fine, but if they have to be replaced, you can't do that. I asked about replacing a rotting bridge deck and I was told that even that is a gray area. That's when we thought we better get some wording change in the law.

In all the years I was in the legislature -- and I'll swear this on a stack of Bibles -- he never asked me to do anything or vote in a particular way, other than he always wants us to build more roads in the mountains.

Frank Robinson

I know this kid. He has never asked for more than one day off when he has thrown a lot. For him to say that he is hurting, he has got to be hurting.

Jeff Gordon

I know people have asked me, 'Why haven't you done that? Why haven't you done that?' I've never really felt like it was my place to do that. I feel like over the years that I've been here that I've earned more respect, but I don't know if I'll ever have the type of respect that Dale had.

I know that as soon as Mike's ready to play he's going to be back on the field. He's a great quarterback, and when I'm asked to play, I'll do the best I can.

I knew he was tired but I asked him to go the extra mile. I didn't notice any flaws in his mechanics and the extra time in between innings did not hurt us.

I knew he was tired but I asked him to go the extra mile.

Brian Lara

I knew that he had asked for me and I have looked forward to this moment.

Lisa Presley

I knew I was in for it, ... when I asked him before we started that if I asked he would slow down. He didn't answer.

I like scoring goals and creating plays, but I think I would be more useful at midfield, ... My brother always played defense, but last year, they asked him to play forward because we needed help there and we had a lot of good defenders.

Lukas Haas

I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.