Famous Quotes & Sayings

I had my radio on and Father asked me if I'd shut (it) off during the wedding.

Jeff Abbott

I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked me if I would consider writing a standalone. The series novel can do a lot to build a loyal readership, but the standalone is sometimes easier for the publisher to market to a broader audience.

Robert Anderson

I had spent all of that time at sea. And I had a job I didn't care about. ... That was the reason they asked me to go. Everything sort of fit. We shook hands on it that night.

Darrell Waltrip

I had talked to Michael and asked him to give me some idea who I should be looking at, and he immediately mentioned David. I didn't know much about him, but I started checking into him and I like him a lot. He's a hands-on guy. He doesn't mind getting his hands dirty. He comes from a racing family, and it always seems like those guys do well.

John Walters

In 2001, President Bush asked me to become Director of National Drug Control Policy, a Cabinet-rank position that coordinates federal drug programs.

Roger Waters

In 1987 or '88, Etienne and Nadine came with a manuscript, ... It was all handwritten, with illustrations by Nadine. They asked if I would set it to music.

Michael Smith

In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new interdisciplinary institute, the Biotechnology Laboratory. I decided that it was time for me to start paying back for the thirty years of fun that I had been able to have in research.

Lesley Nicol

I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.

Bill Kennedy

The City Council took the issue on when they asked for the opinion, and Dennis felt that they addressed it,

The first attention it's getting is from the new charter. No one in the middle schools even asked for our assistance until now.

The Fieldstone Inn asked us to do a holiday concert up there last year and it was a sellout. We think the hometown audience deserves to hear it too.

Jon Stewart

The field of play has become seriously unleveled as a result of the current rules. Our member schools have complained and asked that we find a way of fixing this problem.

Dusty Baker

The final words were that our guys here will pull for them and give them some love. I asked the guys who they were rooting for, and everybody is rooting for their own country.

The first day of class this fall, I broke the students into teams of five and asked them to provide me with four or five tax credits that are currently not in the Internal Revenue Code but would be excellent additions. I ask each group to not only come up with new tax credits, but explain the social, economic or political reason for why the tax credit should be enacted by Congress.

The first Jumbuck did everything we asked of it and when we needed another vehicle Proton was the logical choice.

Martha Coakley

The company got notification from the IRS that Michael McDermott had been delinquent on his taxes and in a fairly routine procedure they asked the company to assist with garnishment of his wages, taking a percentage but obviously not all to pay off his back taxes,

The company asked us to delay the ceremony and we asked, 'Does this mean delay the project?' They said, 'No, just delay the ceremony.

The ICC has asked us to give several details and we need time for that. But we are confident after having already individually notified the ICC about our intentions.

The guys really executed our defensive game plan. Their execution combined with their intensity. We couldn't have asked for anything more.

Drew Rosenhaus

The guy's just a winner. The guy has overcome a lot of adversity, he changed positions in college and overcame the knee injury and now it's stronger than before that injury. He's done everything that's been asked of him.

The guidelines and review procedures are more stringent than they were the first time James was asked to remodel his action. It's been a fascinating, yet scary and lonely process for both of us, but James has taken it on the chin.

The good thing is I learned discipline when I started playing basketball. My (Liberty) teammates laughed at me when I first got there because I asked what time the team dinner was. They laughed and told me we were on our own.

The groups want certain questions asked of Roberts to lay a predicate for future nominees. Unless there's a revelation we can't fathom, this will be the meat of the hearings.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The increases were just higher than we thought. As we did last year when we asked for budget increases, we returned $220,000 to the Town fund. Some of the money from the special appropriation we did not spend for the year, so we thought it was appropriate to return funds that were not needed.

The DoD has never specifically asked the satellite industry to harden its satellites, because it knows it's not something the industry has to do for its commercial satellites.

The doctors asked a lot about what had happened. They revisited, if you will, a chronological timeline of what happened before, how she felt.

The doctor asked if I'm ready, ... I said yeah.

Robin Soderling

A lot of times, he was talking before the point was over, and I asked (the chair umpire) if he could do that. A lot of times before they made the call, (Murray) was screaming, 'Yes!' I didn't like it. After the call is made, he can cheer as much as he can. But not before that.

Anthony Zinni

a lot of work to do, but if I didn't think he would make progress, I wouldn't have asked him to go.

Dan Boyle

You want to have a game plan, but you need to see what they give us. We need that big power play goal. On a scale of 10, if you asked what our confidence is on the power play, you won't get a lot of eights, nines or 10s.

You won't need a ticket and you won't be asked to give any money; we just want you to come and see what it's about. We want to get as many people there as possible. This is going to be a great event, and everybody's going to love it.

Joe Girardi

You've got to learn how to play this game. And a lot of our guys are being asked to learn this game at this level. That's what you have in young players. They are smart kids, they are going to learn.