Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Clark

You can see pretty graphically the need for probably some updating of lines in Minnesota. It's a regional issue, so to the extent any of our companies are investing, we're going to be asked to chip in for it.

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.

You've asked one person to do too much. As a result we don't have good planning, ... Because of the way it has functioned in this town, we haven't had long-term planning to determine how we preserve our island character and charm.

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

Terry Francona

And I went back to make sure he wasn't lying. I checked in the cage, and asked the guys who were throwing to him.

And one of his partners asked ''Has he vertigo?'' and the other glanced out and down and said ''Oh no, only about ten feet more.''

And I think we're deserving of being there. I think our program is one of the top ones in Texas. When we got the invitation I called a staff meeting and asked our coaches why we shouldn't go to this event, and no one could come up with a reason why not. It's going to be an opportunity our kids may never have another chance to do.

Clive Beddoe

And some of our American shareholders asked us if we would consider it and we certainly saw no reason why not to do it.

All we did was change the process slightly. We continued to use the same consortium, but asked them to introduce a second step. We asked them to take local bids.

All they've asked is for us to give a response,

Nicolas Sarkozy

All these squats and all these buildings have to be closed to stop these tragedies, and that's what I've asked the police commissioner to do because we're talking about human beings living in unacceptable conditions,

The girls went out this past weekend and left it all out there. They did everything that I asked them to do, but that doesn't always guarantee a win.

The girls want to be competitive and I let them set what they want to do. But if you asked them, they?d all say Final Four again.

The girls certainly delivered. They did exactly what we asked them to -- to worry about place and not worry about time.

The girls came out and did what I asked them to do, which is play together and play extremely hard.

Sarah Fisher

The girls are in a position now that when they do well, they are going to receive the attention. I think that everything that has been asked is all fair and good. I'm just extremely happy to have the opportunity to work with Richard Childress. He's first class.

The Libyan president is ready to come to Indonesia and I have been asked to orally extend the arrangement of time.

The libero is asked to take on a lot of responsibility. She always impresses me.

The kids asked me to come and play, and it was a magical moment.

The kids are tired of banging on each other and we are excited about playing Oakdale. Our kids have done all that we have asked of them.

The jury is entitled to know what type of person they're being asked to trust. If they built a case around a guy who lied about the extent of his influence, they could end up holding a wet paper bag with the bottom having fallen out.