Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nomar Garciaparra

If you were in a skid, Pedro would come in and stop the bleeding at times. He can give you a boost when he goes out there because you know he wants the ball every time. Every fifth day he's asking for that ball, and he's such a competitor, and you play so well behind him because he just breeds that when he steps on the mound.

Ben Horowitz

In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

In a cooling market you could make a bid under asking price that you wouldn't consider making in a heating-up market, where competition for houses is fierce.

I had friends start asking if Scott knew what I liked. I looked at rings online and at the mall and figured out that I liked a few different things.

E. B. White

If there was a federal election I was going to consider running for mayor because a lot of people were asking me. I said if there was an election prior to November I would likely do that. I would seriously consider it at that point,

It has to be clear that the mandate we will be asking from the population in the next election is to hold the referendum as soon as possible in the mandate.

I just cringe to think what the average tourist would think of our downtown after visiting St. Louis Centre. If I see conventioneers down here asking where to shop, I never send them to St. Louis Centre.

I just know I am not going to let my parents die. They made it sound like we were asking for something for free.

Dan Brown

I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

I may have a candidate that I actually gets introduced to members of the city council (Thursday), ... If not, I could even see the possibility of asking the council to come back together before the next (regular) meeting on Sept. 15.

Eugene Field

I'm being assessed for it. I get nothing, ... I was told by the time I got my tax bill I would get water. My mistake was in not asking them what year.

Kwame Kilpatrick

I'm asking you to trust what you raised, ... I'm asking you to give me another chance to move this city forward.

I'm asking you to please upgrade that property,

I'm asking you to find him guilty, but find him guilty for what he did.

I'm asking you to do nothing more or nothing less than to follow the law. I'm asking you to find a reasonable doubt.

Vicente Fox

I'm asking you for zero unemployment, ... I'm asking you not fire anyone, to keep them in their regular positions or use them in rebuilding.

I'm asking the people of Scotland to shout with me, do they think that this is acceptable?

I'm asking them to be older than their years. But they were also baptized by fire. We took a pretty good caning early on, and hopefully you learn from that. Every game we'll play the rest of the league schedule will be like tonight.

Kathleen Blanco

I'm asking our citizens to please understand the seriousness of our situation, ... ... It is too dangerous to come home.

Steve Rauschenberger

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.

Walter Mondale

I'm asking for your help to build a future that Paul Wellstone would have liked to have seen,

Kwame Kilpatrick

I'm asking for unity in this community, ... We understand this chair represents all of Detroit.

I'm asking every North Carolinian to be in a safe place, take care of your families and don't come out, ... Meanwhile, I want people to say prayers for their neighbors.

I'm asking each of you to help me save this festival. We've done everything we can.

Kathleen Blanco

I'm asking all of you to do your very best to get as many people to safe ground as possible. It occurs to me that a lot of people went to bed last night thinking that hurricane was going to Florida, ... I got a report at 7 o'clock that there were about 700 people doing Little League ball in the New Orleans area.

If over time the World Baseball Classic works the way we hope it will, I think the next time there is a discussion it will be the IOC asking us to come back.

I opted to give him a break after the Manhattan. He didn't have any major problems. I've been pointing for this race for a long time. I figure he runs well fresh, and he wants to go the distance. Naturally I'm a little nervous bringing him back off the layoff and asking him to go this far, but I think he should run well.

John Gould

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

If the U.S. economy slows down, U.S. demand for domestic goods will slow down. The tension between slower overall growth and increased need for exporters will result in more companies asking for protection.

If Wasps had come here (Bristol), put 50 points on us and we had to face Saracens the following week, with the best will in the world, you would have been asking a few questions of yourself and having a few doubts.

If you're asking me, ... it's a touchdown.

If you're asking me if we would have taken that deal, then no, we would not have taken that deal. But that doesn't mean it's a bad deal for Excite.

If you're asking me if I think I'm that back, yeah, I know I'm the back you can grind it out with and close out a game,