Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm trying not to be greedy in my decision making process and I'm asking everyone to cooperate with this.

I'm totally uncomfortable asking my students to fund-raise for my pay, we already fund-raise just for the activities. I can't do it. It's not professional.

I'm not telling people not to give to Katrina, because God knows they need it, ... But we're going to be asking them to help our needs locally. We are always going to have a segment of our population that's going to need our help.

I'm not surprised. There must be 29 teams asking about Roberto.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something, ... Rather than asking me for my autograph, you're actually watching a movie with me. If you want to sit there and talk about how to get into the business and ask me questions about 'Pulp Fiction' I'm not going to be very responsive. I'll probably shut you down. All right? But if you want to talk to me about the movie we just showed and what you thought about it, I'll talk to you all (expletive) night.

I'm hopeful. You're asking the coach, and I'm gonna be as positive as I can.

Bill Clinton

I'm having to become quite an expert at this business of asking for forgiveness, and it gets a little easier the more you do it. And if you have a family, an administration, a Congress and a whole country to ask, you're going to get a lot of practice.

In the interest of 70,000 journalists in our country, I am asking the ruling chancellor to take back his accusations.

intelligent enough to understand that the times are asking for modern policies so that we can be attractive enough to international investment, so that the country can grow, because the government does not have money today to make the country grow.

Insurance underwriters are asking many more diverse questions regarding both individual risks from both a products standpoint and premises liability. And renewals are requiring more and more detail than ever before to support the types of questions they're asking.

Instead of asking which Delaware League teams are tough, you're better off asking which ones aren't tough, because there are a lot of strong teams out there.

Henry Miller

Instead of asking -- ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask -- ''How much good? How much joy?''

Michael McMillian

I remember the first job I ever had was working on 'Firefly,' and I was talking to Joss Whedon, and he was asking if I was going to Comic-Con. He called me a loser for not going that first year.

I remember asking the question to my assistant, 'Now where is she scoring and how? Well, she gets it close to the basket, spins and scores. There must be a reason. They can't stop it.

I remember asking them what took them so long to find me.

Charlotte McKinney

I remember asking one of my agents, like, 'Hey, is this Instagram thing good for models, or is it bad?' And they said, 'No. Keep doing it. Heidi Klum, or whoever, has millions of followers, and that doesn't hurt them.' So, I kept with it. I think it definitely helped.

Jacqueline Woodson

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

I personally just thought it was an earthquake. ... Fifteen minutes later, I started to get phone calls from, basically, people asking us if we were all right.

Richard Dreyfuss

Cindy Sheehan is making a starting point with the questions she is asking and it's not unpatriotic to ask them, ... It's actually a higher form of patriotism.

Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.

Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

Before banks wanted to see three comparable sales. Now lenders are asking for a fourth and a fifth comparable.

Brooks Robinson

He wrote that he met with Powhatan and was fed cornbread and venison at a big banquet, ... Was he forced to write the letter? Well, the Indians couldn't read English, so they wouldn't have known if he was asking for help.

California has a strong public policy protecting employees' rights to freely choose where they can work, and we are asking the court to vindicate this right.

Can you work with me on this? I've got some major issues here. I'm not asking for special treatment. I'm really not.

Can you force this district attorney to present (charges of perjury) to a grand jury? That's what we're asking for.

I bring it up, and the kids are so relieved and the parents are so relieved. But they would probably go without asking the question otherwise, which is really dumb.

Katherine Mansfield

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Champ Bailey

I always want to go. If you don't go, I don't know, maybe they quit asking you. I love it. Any time I'm voted in, I don't care if it's the 20th in a row, I'm coming; I'll be right here and I'll play like I want to be here.

This is a cut of unprecedented size. We'll try to work with the governor and Legislature, asking them to consider higher education as an investment.

This investigation is in its preliminary stages and journalists and others who want information should really be asking the CIA, and should be asking civilian flight authorities what they know.

This guy, every day, deals with some of the most important issues facing the American people. You're asking him to recollect conversations, some fairly short, and he's giving his best recollections. Maybe he didn't remember correctly, but he didn't have the intent to deceive the special prosecutor or grand jury.

Mack Brown

They're treated like celebrities. It's a smaller town than L.A., and they're treated like NFL players there. They're very recognized. People are always asking for their autographs when they're out, so they're really appreciated.