Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Lawson

I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years.

Tom Daschle

I asked directly if we could delay this so we could depoliticize it. I said: 'Mr. President, I know this is urgent, but why the rush? Why do we have to do this now?' He looked at Cheney and he looked at me, and there was a half-smile on his face. And he said: 'We just have to do this now.'

I asked Dick if they'd asked him if he was interested in the (Redskins) job, ... Dick said they did, and then he said, 'But I couldn't work for a guy like Dan Snyder.'

I asked David once, 'What does it look like downfield?' ... And he said, 'Dude, they're covered.'

I asked Darby if she knew where her children were. She stated yes and directed me to her vehicle. Darby opened the vehicle, which had only one child inside.

I asked coach to start the foundation as a living memorial to Sydney and he said yes.

Apollonius of Tyana

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

I asked Brandi's mom if there were some things we had to watch out for. Brandi is very good about looking out for herself. There was one time at camp that her mom brought in some emergency insulin.

I asked a Jewish man "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said "Yes", and walked away.

I asked a couple people when they got here to get the prime seats, and they said 5:30 a.m..

I asked a couple of them, 'Do you want to go home?' I just challenged them to do the things they are capable of doing and they did. We just settled down and starting playing. I don't know when we've been down that much. It's an awesome experience to be able to go through and be able to win.

I basically had the best spring of my life. I was brought in and knew who my competition was. And I have confidence in myself to go out and play the game and I did it. I basically did everything I was asked and, obviously, it wasn't enough.

I basically got it when I asked them why my player got a (double-yellow) for breaking up a fight, and that was basically it. I just defended my player.

Olli Jokinen

I am asked a lot why I don't go somewhere else where the team is in the playoffs, but I feel that we have a chance to be a playoff team. We have a chance to get something good going and win over here. I want to win with the Panthers and that's the reason that I wanted to stay.

I am not losing hope that I will soon receive all the documents that we have asked for.

Jane Green

I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn't work out, voice work is what I would choose.

Caron Butler

If Coach needed me to come off the bench to be successful, I was going to do that. Obviously we went through a stretch in which we didn't win games, and with the injury to Jarvis Hayes, he told me I had the opportunity to start. He asked me how I felt about it, and I said, 'If the team's going to be better with me starting, I'll all for it.' And we've been good. We're 3-1.

I feel bad that I took that away from him. I went and found him and asked him if he could forgive me.

Nelson Mandela

If each and every party involved in those commissions had asked me to testify, it would have completely undermined the function of government.

John Chaney

I don't want to talk about that at all. We've been asked that question for the last five or six years. I've been asked that question ever since I came to Temple. We'll talk about that some other time.

Jenny Shipley

I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your children?' I don't think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.

I don't think we could have asked for more from them or our defense.

Matthew Hoggard

I don't think we could have asked for a better day.

He's never once asked me how many points he had, never once asked me about any individual records. He really doesn't care about that.

Pete Carroll

He's never been asked to be a coach for an NFL job before. It came out of nowhere.

He sold Dr. Simons one of his dove mirrors that he had made for his office and gave me a hug. Later that day he called me back and asked me for a date, and I said yes.

Paul Posluszny

He's obviously handling it as well as he could. He's taking his punishment like a man. He's doing everything the coaches have asked him to do.

Mark E. Smith

He's got a fastball, curve and change. He throws a heavy ball. That means he gets plenty of grounders. He's done everything we have asked of him so far.

However, I'm not the one that asked for the opinion. That would be the person who needs to withdraw it. I don't know what we'll gain if we continue, but maybe it's something that needs to continue so it doesn't happen in the future.

He simply told me that they had decided to give the sponsorship to another company. I asked him (who it was) and he said I would find out later.

I cannot tell you that, ... I kind of questioned their effort. I asked them why they wanted to play football, and the guys really responded good, so I'm proud of them.

I contacted the people over the festival and asked them if they would like me to organize an authentic group of dancers.

Annika Sorenstam

I could not have asked for a better start to 2006 and I hope we'll be able to come back and defend our title next year.