Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Pollack

I wanted a 1950s, jazzy feel. Neal asked me what section of the city I wanted to do, and I totally wanted to do the Green Mill. I wanted to do that neighborhood.

Jamie Oliver

Sorry, I don?t do offal' - when asked to spend a day cooking at Westminster

Soro thanked the president profusely for the commitment and zeal with which he did his job as the chairman of AU. He asked Obasanjo not to be tired as he continued to help them in Ivory Coast to get out of the woods.

Matt Kuchar

Some tournaments have asked if he'd play with me, especially my first year when he was not quite 50, but he never did,

Sophie turned to me and said, 'It would have been really romantic if you had asked me during this song. But I had already asked, and she accepted.

Arn Tellem

Teams have asked him, in general, about the outfield, first base, second base. He's pretty open to any position other than catcher and pitcher.

I wanted the other girls to learn how to do the no-look pass, so I asked Sara to show everybody how she did it. And she said she didn't know how to explain how to make those passes. She just does it.

I walked into a rest room here on campus and I bumped into him, ... We both said excuse me and were on our separate ways. I asked a mutual friend who I had bumped into and they said, That's someone you should really get to know.'

Kofi Annan

I walked in and shook hands and he asked what happened to the Egyptian,

I've invited some legislators but they just looked at me like I was weird. Obviously, I haven't asked the right ones.

Jack Jones

I've known him since he was about 5 years old. I watched him grow up. In his school, in his community, he was always willing to help and always led by example. He brought out the best in other people in athletics and I think he set the example in the classroom by performing and doing the things he was asked of him.

Alexandra Adornetto

I've had a few embarrassing moments in restaurants. I tried to order a quesadilla, and I totally mispronounced the word. And another time, I asked for some toast with Marmite, and they had no idea what I was asking for!

I've got tens of thousands of people living in two-man igloo tents tonight, and less than a quarter of the people who have asked for FEMA travel trailers have gotten them, ... And at the same time they can find $140,000 a year to pay this incompetent son of a gun; that's ridiculous.

Mary Lambert

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

Miroslav Satan

I'm kind of curious what kind of emotions I'll have, ... I couldn't have asked maybe for a better matchup for my first game. I think it's exciting.

Marc Warren

I'm pretty caring, loyal and loving to those who are close to me. Two of my friends are from school, so I've known them for more than 30 years. My best friend, Paul Fisher, sat next to me in English when I was ten or 11. If you asked him, he'd say I was loyal. I don't think I've changed over the years.

I'm optimistic they can do the job that has been asked of them. Regional planning partners sound very well-prepared, experienced and ready to take on the task of organizing each communities vision.

I moved everybody out of the way and asked them to find me a white towel,

David Foster

I'm often asked why we are bringing it here. We do like to remind people that for decades, we have been the primary destination for visitors who are interested in Egypt and Egyptian things. We have a permanent exhibit featuring Egypt, and we always have special exhibits like this.

Roger Clemens

I'm just glad they asked me to be a part of this.

Ian Snell

I'm just excited for my team. To get my team on a high level of playing baseball right now. We struggled of late. I couldn't have asked for a better outing. It was really good.

Anyway, it was at the Electric Cowboy and there were about 180 of us there and they gave us all a number. I had to sing a cappella and that always makes me really nervous. I thought my mouth was going to get dry or I was going to crack a note. I really thought, 'I'm fixin' to ruin this deal right here.' But I sang 30 seconds of Dwight Yoakam's cover of the Elvis Presley song 'Little Sister' and I made it through it. Then they pulled me off to the side and asked me to come back the next day. They only asked 18 of us to come back, and that was pretty good.

Anthony is just one of the cogs in the engine. I can't stress enough when we're asked as coaches who is playing well, it's the entire team. The reason why we're successful is that they all have bought into the team concept. It's all three phases of the game: Offense, defense and special teams.

A number of members (of Congress) have gone back to their constituents and asked about it, and that's where it's shouted, 'No,'

An individual came from the back door and had an armful of property and we asked if he lived there and he said, 'no.' We asked him what he was doing there and he said he stopped to use the bathroom.

E. B. White

An older model El Camino pulled up and the individual asked the child if they wanted a ride and the child refused,

A reporter asked me, 'Which indicators are you most happy with?' I said without hesitation: the 9.7 million jobs.

Any time I asked him for anything that Pacific Grove needed, any cause, he always pulled his checkbook and wrote a big check. Mr. Chamberlin, as your neighbor, as your friend, I will miss you.

Jimmy Carter

Another thing that we share is a need to earn a living after we leave the White House. Rosalyn asked me to announce, by the way, that our books are still on sale.

Ashleigh was tremendous on Ray Williams. (Williams) is a great post player ... but she doesn't like it when a guard defends her, so that's a switch we made and we were going to keep Ashleigh on her until she asked to come out of the game.

As far as being asked to play in the WBC, I am incredibly happy and incredibly honored to be asked. It just didn't work out this year. I definitely wanted to perform here in the camp in the beginning, especially with the change in the batting order.

Martin Freeman

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

Nat Friedman

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.