Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're committed to playing people because that's going to help us at the end of ballgames and that's going to help us towards the end of the season. Instead of asking a guy the last part of the season who has already played 850 snaps to play 80 more, it makes sense to me that there should be an increase in production when a guy has played 575 to 600 snaps at that point in the year.

Samantha Shannon

'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'

Robert Kazinsky

I'd watched every episode of 'True Blood' from the very beginning. The show's characters were in my blood, so when I started, I was really prepared. I made sure I wasn't the new guy asking stupid questions on his first day.

Rohit Shetty

Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, 'What are you doing for the industry?' When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I'm not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.

With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

Let us think for a moment about alien, regarding possibility of the existence of other civilization beyond our dear planet earth. We probably conclude that it's all just hoax, or some rumors issued by ruling government for some purpose. Now, we can contemplate a bit about it by asking this simple rhetorical question, 'How could possibly people be able to think about something unknown, which have never been popped out in human minds at all?'

Henry Cuellar

And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

The point we're making is, this is a report we take seriously and we are asking the Russians to look into it.

The pictures we got, I think, are very good pictures. What we're asking is for the public to take a look, see if they can identify him.

The pay is not comparable to what we're asking people to do,

Brittany Curran

When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie. So, working for Disney was really a childhood dream come true.

David Kay

This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.

Victoria Osteen

Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

V. S. Naipaul

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

Alexander McCall Smith

Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.

We have lost about four weekends of work that we were going to pour concrete. And people are asking us why do we only pour concrete on the weekends. Well, we need to close couple lanes and we need three days for the concrete to cure.

Stephan James

When I first got the call from my manager asking if I'd ever heard of Jesse Owens, I recognized the name, looked him up, and was blown away by his story.

Logan Marshall-Green

I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.

Neal A. Maxwell

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

Naomi Wolf

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?

Britney Spears

As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't.

Michael Fassbender

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.

We are not making any assumptions in this storm. We are asking questions.

We are not fighting the fact that the state is asking us to do a better job. We are fighting the fact that the state is cramming it down our throats without any input from us.

No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats.

When Gretchen took off, the labels started asking Joe 'What else do you have?' ... And he said, 'I have Bobby Pinson - this is the most real thing I have.'

When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire, we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff. We will use his many talents on both the basketball and business sides of the team.

When there's a criminal investigation going on, we can't go in like a bull in a china shop, asking questions.

Steve Rauschenberger

You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign. I mean, if there's one thing that's clear ... he knows more about his campaign organization than he knows about state government.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

Saad Hariri

Today, we are not asking for revenge. We are asking for justice. And justice will take its course, its full course, God willing.

Jay Leno

U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads in Iraq. So, the question everyone is asking now is how did Sean Penn miss this?