Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Sullivan

It's looking at New Gloucester today and how New Gloucester has changed in the last few years. All of this, of course, is a precursor to asking the citizens of New Gloucester what do they want New Gloucester to be in the future?

It's kind of like the guy with a sign on the entrance ramp to the freeway. Would you be more inclined to give him a few bucks if he says he needs it for food or for beer? At least the guy asking for beer is being honest about it.

Steve Johnson

It's kind of like asking what part of flying a plane would you not like your pilot to learn.

It's kind of her asking her father why he did this.

Jeff Sessions

[Donald Trump] was a magnificent witness. The reporter, when asking me about his testimony, said, "Sessions gushed about his testimony." But it was remarkable.

Jim Gaffigan

Anyone know if the shuttles to Hell will have Wifi? Asking for a friend.

Christopher Lee

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency...

Jasper Fforde

Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.

Hillary Clinton

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

Ethel Waters

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

He's loving the fact that he comes here to play, that his family is going to see him. I'm sure he'll be asking for all of our tickets.

Jim Davis

George Bates is our police chief, and if George was asking (for a curfew), I'd be the first one to make a motion. But until he comes to us and says we have a problem, I think we should leave it to his discretion,

Elizabeth Warren

G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.

Franz Kafka

But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

George Horace Lorimer

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Faith Hill

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

I've always booked the theater with the idea of accommodating the unique needs of our groups. For example, the symphony can't be two weeks apart, and the theater groups all want to have three weekends per run ... the theater has always been scheduled with these things in mind, but we also have to gauge what the public is asking us to provide.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.

Val Kilmer

Thank you. I would like to say something truthful about Robert. He knows who he is and has a sense of humor about it. It's a hard business. And to have things happen that are bad and have to go through it with everybody asking you questions about it all day long is tough.

John Breaux

I've had feelers put out to me by low-level people in the Bush organization, mostly campaign-type people, asking if I would be interested in serving.

William Gibson

I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, "How do you know what the future is going to be like?" And I'd always say, "I don't.

Brandon Cox

I've enjoyed this spring. No pressure at all. It's been a lot different spring. Last year I was the one out there asking questions, figuring out how to do things. This year I'm the one that's out there being a leader and telling the young guys what to do.

I'm letting my friends and family know I'm OK and asking them to pray for New Orleans,

Phil Niekro

I'm learning as the years go by how many great athletes and coaches there are up here. I've been living on the lake here since 1987, and I keep asking myself why I didn't move here sooner.

Phyllis George

I'm getting all these calls from casinos asking 'Are you locked in? Barry Manilow was all over us, inviting the girls to the show, but we couldn't fit it into the schedule.

Don Porter

I'm optimistic. Everyone I've talked to is very supportive at least to come back and give us an opportunity for another shot at it. That's all we're asking for.

David Gregory

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

John Cairns

IM is becoming a mainline way in which people do work in the enterprise and customers have been asking for a secure IM client, and we are now offering them this. This is the workhorse release for business users.

Florynce Kennedy

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

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.