Famous Quotes & Sayings

We didn't know, since she was asking for water, we assumed maybe he was still conscious and maybe still coughing.

We have diligently enforced our statute, and we are asking the court to find that we have done so. Then we will ask the court to order companies to pay in full.

Abhishek Bachchan

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Gina Barreca

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut our rates or work for free because we're members of the same sex.

Both hospitals are constantly asking for more people. Of our graduates, 98 percent have jobs waiting for them, and most of them get jobs here locally.

Being annexed into Gilbert is like asking us to get married to a very dysfunctional partner. And worse yet, the town is trying to make it a shotgun wedding.

The lawyers in my firm are asking me, 'I'm not going to lose service, am I?' Man, people are wiggin' out.

Jon Daniels

The longer this went on, and the more time between when we indicated we'd meet what was ultimately their asking price, it was clear that other teams were involved,

An athlete with disordered eating doesn't see food as fuel that helps build her body but as calories and fat. In their world, food has become a four-letter word. When they start asking if ketchup has sugar in it, I know we are in trouble.

An asking price has no bearing on fair market value. Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy.

Todd Akin

American workers like those at Boeing and its supplier companies aren't asking for a handout, or a leg up. They are asking for a chance at fair competition.

All of our members have been asking us for new methods to increase sales.

All she's asking for is the meals to be served here so these people have somewhere to eat.

Eminem

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

The mayor's sending out letters to many of the business leaders in the area, asking for their financial help in this project. Personally, I'd like to see the project completed by Medal of Honor Day on March 25. That means getting it funded, the monument constructed and installed by then.

Hugh Johnson

The market is asking the question, given oil prices, given rates, given China's economy and other things, what does it look like for the economy and corporate profits in the fourth quarter and in 2005? The message we got last week was that it's probably not going to be as great as everybody once expected, but it will still be just fine.

Fred Ward

It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.

Emily Blunt

I really look for asking myself that question, "Oh my God, how am I going to do this?" That's what I aspire to every time I take on a new role.

Daz Dillinger

Snoop opened his little black book and called everybody up. I'm asking who's coming up here.

At this stage, everyone is a professional. Everyone knows the game, and they know the players. So I think it behooves a coach to be open to asking (us) about certain players. At this level, everyone's adults. Everyone's mature in this game.

That's a great job. That's what we were asking for out of the quarterback in this offense.

That's asking a lot. It certainly will make it tougher to get to state.

Every time you encounter a difficulty or a problem in anything you do don't get down about it. It is just the universe asking you "How much do you want it?

To be honest, we really didn't make any adjustments at halftime. I went a little French on the asking them to come out with more effort and intensity and we just started playing better.

Steven Pressfield

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.

Russell Crowe

People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

Companies are essentially asking employees to do two jobs. Employees can feel like you're piling it on.

Coach has been asking the offense to step up and we finally did.

Scott Podsednik

Coming over my first couple of months people were asking me about the change in leagues. I didn't see a significant difference. ... I don't think it's a necessarily a different brand of baseball. The DH may have a little to do with that but it's probably just coincidental that the American League has won these last few.

Despite the happy ending of the release of the Egyptian diplomat, there are people who are asking what are the reasons behind such incidents.

Developers have been coming to us and asking us to do something special for their buildings.

Dave Tippett

Are they bad mistakes by the goalie? No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop? Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there.