Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to know if it still is an effective growth model for the school system. We asked the administration to come back with a recommendation, and they may come back with reasons to eliminate year-round completely.

What a performance. And we asked him to do it. We gave him the ball a lot, and he came through. There was no secret where the ball was going.

We (the city and Vasko) are going in different directions. I asked him for his resignation.

We talked last night and asked everybody to try to feel what it would feel like to win. We wanted everybody to see that picture. ... The one thing different in the past was deep down, we didn't believe we could beat them. We felt we could this time.

We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right now.' He and me talked about my Navy career. He told me he was in the Navy. He showed me his card and asked where I was from. He asked what I was doing in the area. He was a good man. He was a God-fearing person. He didn't deserve to die.

We changed our business practice and use the retail model. The customer is greeted and asked what business they are conducting, and we look at the documents they have. It averages 7 to 8 minutes from the first counter to when they walk away with a license.

Paul Scheuring

We certainly asked that question, and research bore out that, in fact, when you are going to incarcerated, you can make a request through your attorney to be incarcerated in a particular place that's close to your home, your family and friends. Now, the court doesn't have to honor that, but it certainly is a real process. If we didn't have that, then we might not have this show.

We certainly appreciated that he came here and asked what questions and concerns we might have. At this point there are just a lot of unknowns.

They played with a a lot of heart and played the way we asked them to,

They're asked for a lot. They're rarely given. When they are given, they're rarely accepted. Apologies rarely put things behind politicians.

They're a pretty big law firm, I guess, but I took them and I won. Every time the judge asked me a question, I had the answer.

They respect the idea that we have asked them to do something.

I just had faith in Coach Ken and I knew he'd get me someplace where I wanted to be. I didn't even sweat about the schools. People asked me what school I was going to go to. I didn't know who was recruiting me.

William Crawford

I heard a loud boom that shook the house. At first I thought it was the furnace. I asked my son 'Did you feel that?' It shook the couch. I thought maybe something fell upstairs, or maybe the chimney collapsed or something. I went outside to look around. You can see the town garage from the house; I thought maybe it was the back of the bucket banging. Nobody was at the town garage.

Maury Wills

I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who he was and they told me. Right then, I said, 'I want to play for the Dodgers someday.' That was my childhood dream.

I held her and I asked if she was OK, and her eyes were open but she didn't answer,

I heard people screaming, so I went down the street and saw the smoke and fire and I called 911. Then I went into backyard, and there were girls there crying screaming, saying someone in the house. I heard a guy screaming out the front window. I knew he was a contractor, so I asked if he had a ladder. He said there was one in the back yard, so I went, got it, and set it up.

I haven't really asked her. My wife was not thrilled about me going back into coaching.

Mike Hargrove

I haven't gone around and taken a poll -- and I won't -- but I would bet if you went out and asked all those guys about their favorite teammates, a lot of them would mention Kenji as one of them.

I haven't even asked headquarters to ship stuff; they just know we need it and they send it.

Butch Harmon

I have told Tiger and his parents when they asked me that I think, physically, his game is at a level where he can play and succeed on the professional tour.

Jok Church

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

I put it in pretty simple terms. I asked him, 'Do you want to make two grand in the Minors or start out with $360,000 in the big leagues?' Those are terms that are pretty easy to understand.

I pride myself on doing whatever's asked of me, but there's no question that's what I like to do. It certainly gets me into the game that way.

I promised it to somebody who asked me for it a while ago but even if I hadn't, I'd just give it to the ref or throw it in the stands,

I probably would have done it for John Jones if he'd asked me.

I probably would have asked him to do it, ... I'd want the best, and I am pretty proud of him (Keen).

Investors are being asked to own a stock on more and more faith. There is a lack of clarity about the company's growth rate and a lack of vision on where they are going.

Pope John

In those difficult times, we asked that His power might be poured into the hearts of men and women and that hope might be stirred in them. Is not all that happened at that time in Europe and the world, beginning with our own homeland, God's response?

In the locker room, I asked them not to quit on me. We could have. This could have been a 40-point blowout.

In the late '90s, lots of other people had entered the business and it got crowded. As the new team came on board, we asked how do we compete differently in this marketplace?

Jim Doyle

In the past, the EPA has responded within 24 hours when we have asked for this kind of waiver, but now, in the wake of the biggest natural disaster in our history, they are dragging their feet,

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.