Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Paver

When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, I asked him if he had any regrets, and he said no. I was a burnt-out litigation solicitor in my thirties, hating my life, and his cancer made me re-evaluate it all.

I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.

Peter Bergman

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

Prince Andrew

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

Poppy Z. Brite

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

Marcus Brigstocke

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.

Scott Walker

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Simon McBurney

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Mike Ross

To me, it was the most fascinating sign in Boston. I asked my parents about it when I was very young and first saw it. My father and I would have big discussions about it. I didn't get it. I didn't get what those buildings were. Now I know inside those buildings is a great community.

To be honest with you, I was surprised she missed them. She's shooting very well. I asked her after the game, 'Jen, how did you miss the last two?' and she said, 'I knew we won and I couldn't control myself.' Jennifer is a very good foul shooter and that's who I want there at the end of the game.

To be honest, we've been asked by many different groups would we do a fund-raiser in our home, but we had long ago during the construction phase said the first event would be for United Way. United Way helps so many different groups and agencies.

To be honest, I just went brain dead. I was not asked to talk about projects, and I was not prepared.

Toward the end of the trip, a Wisconsin church group asked us if we could send some people on an emergency basis to help finish off the field reconstruction. That night the town teams were scheduled to play their first games since the hurricane and the rebuilding effort was running behind.

This was a big meet for Ben. He's from Jeffersonville, (Ind.), and he had a lot of family and friends at the meet so he wanted to do well. There's not a whole lot more we could have asked for.

What is helping the dollar is the moral persuasion of the central banks. There's been contact between the European Central Bank and national central banks that make up the ECB urging calm, urging a block on any kind of speculative trading. The Federal Reserve has also weighted in and asked that dollar trading be limited. I think that will support the currency.

We go for that sound that surprises people. We actually got pulled over by a police officer on our way back from Massachusetts, and he asked if we were in a musical group because he saw we were in a van. He asked what we play, and we said we play heavy metal that's really hard to play. Technical metal is what we usually call it.

We game-planned for this game, we were working on it for a week. We knew what we were getting into. They did exactly what I asked them to do.

John Carney

We cannot know, direct or predict with specific certainty today what future treatment decisions we will be asked to make for ourselves or those we love.

Don Cheadle

We knew if we could get Don, he'd attract a cast because he's the kind of actor all the directors want to work with. We asked him to produce the film as well, because we're not dumb. ... He's the reason we have this cast, he and the fabulous casting directors.

We knew he was capable of doing what he's been asked to do here. You always second-guess yourself -- 'Maybe, maybe not.' He's left no doubt. He plays so hard every down it's amazing.

John Schuerholz

Throughout this remarkable 15-year run of ours in which the Braves have had so much success, I'm asked one question and one question only, ... And that is, 'How have you guys done it? How have the Braves been able to continue to win and put a championship organization and team on the field year after year after year?'

Throughout the year they've been taken down, and I asked my sister if she had. And she said no.

Joe Girardi

You have two young men that haven't played at this level and they're being asked to do a lot. Center field is an important position. We'll try to figure out which one is going to be our starter of the future and get them both at-bats.

To have Eisner and Kirby back to back like that just blew everyone's minds, ... From then on, I think that some people we asked thought, 'Well, if Eisner did the convention, and Kirby, why shouldn't we?'

To have a team come through and do what you asked them to do in practice, to have that transfer over, first of all I'm really proud that they could do that.

You have to understand the measurement of success sometimes comes in not where you wanted them to end up, but how far they've come. I've asked a lot of these kids to step up, and they've done that. I can't fault the kids. The majority of them wrestled as hard as they could possibly wrestle.

Mike Hargrove

You guys asked me before if he was awestruck with the Yankees, and I tried to downplay that. I don't know he was awestruck, but he was terribly excited. He was flying open. Bad. He couldn't find command of his pitches.

This year he was asked to score, to rebound and defend. He was asked to do a lot of different things.

We had asked for the FDA to consider two other options. One is to get rid of these colorings completely and let companies replace them with safer ingredients. But if the FDA decided to require labeling, at least to indicate that these are insect derived.

Carl Edwards

We had a really good test there a few weeks ago. It reminds me of Pocono a little bit. When we tested there Kurt (Busch) was there as well so I asked him a ton of questions and he helped me a lot. I think there are a lot of places to pick up speed which is neat. We ran the fastest lap time that day which was cool. I'm really optimistic about our chances there.

We've had a stunning reversal in just a few weeks. We've gone from a situation in which we might have a long-overdue debate on deep poverty to the possibility, perhaps even the likelihood, that low-income people will be asked to bear the costs. I would find it unimaginable if it wasn't actually happening.

David Cook

We've had a lot of people come who are not happy about dogs and have asked for more enforcement.

We've had a couple of people who've asked the question, but to the best of my knowledge, we haven't run into that situation.