Famous Quotes & Sayings

He wants to expand, obviously. He'll be asking for more than $5 million, but we're not ready to give a dollar figure.

He wanted to come down and see what it's about. He said he's never been around the road course. Elliott Forbes-Robinson took him around in a van to show him where it went. He seems to be very excited. He's asking all the right questions about shift points and breaking points. Just the kind of boring things you need to know before you get in the car. I think he'll really enjoy it. It's a good friendly car that's fast.

He can't remember what he had for breakfast this morning. We have to constantly remind him. He keeps asking what day it is, what year it is, and to have to live your life, and we so often live our lives based on our memories, it's a difficult chore for him.

He just needs a third pitch. Here's a guy who the Twins were asking for in a big-league trade two years ago. So I look for good things from him.

He kind of fell into our lap. He moved down here and started calling the school asking if there was an opening, and we had one. It's good for us because you don't get lacrosse people falling in your lap.

He kept working and working but for some reason things just didn't fall into place for him. But he continued to do what we were asking for.

He just had a last-minute complication. It's a 12-hour drive round-trip and that was asking a great deal. He was hoping to be able to do it, but another situation necessitated other circumstances.

Harvard Medical School is famous for asking interviewees to open a window that is nailed shut.

Thomas Piketty

The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word.

Kathleen Hanna

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

Mark Turgeon

I was just asking our guys to get it close and put the pressure on them.

Chris Osgood

I was just asking him how he was, and I said I was ready and he didn't have to push it if he was injured, and that was it, really.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Michael Bamberger

I can totally understand why people who aren't reporters would make that point. It didn't work for me. I could never, as a reporter, see going to the police first rather than asking the subject about it.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Mary Bono

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

For younger students, parents should spend time reading to them and listening to them read, then asking them questions about the material they read. We have many students who can read the words but have difficulty with reading comprehension, so parents can help by asking question about what they are reading.

For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions.

Mike Riley

From one district to another, everyone is asking what are you doing about this. We are all scrambling to put this in place.

For right now, we're asking a lot of a few players. I think that eventually they'll deliver. But what's most important to us is as we get more experienced, that we limit our mistakes and that we get better.

Fund-raising provided extra stress that coaches just don't need. It's just asking us to do too much to be a coach and be a chief financial officer.

I talked with the people I buy them from and we're basically not going to be getting any for a while, ... I told the people I won't be asking for them for a while. I'd hate to put one out down here when people so desperately need them down there.

Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible. But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions. If they are all confirmed, it could be odd.

It bothers me to see people asking thousands of dollars. It's not right.

Lance Armstrong

Based on the translation I read of the press release, I'm pleased that the UCI seems to be asking many of the right questions.

Basically, we're asking for monetary contributions right now.

Basically we have a newborn here. We feel very strongly that these two individuals are very dangerous and we don't know what their intentions are. We are asking the public to keep eyes open for their vehicle; have info, call 911.

Basically everyone would be asking congressional committees for investigative documents and records.

Mohsin Hamid

Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,' is the answer. I'm the kind of guy who spends three times as much on his speakers as he does on his television.

Chris has one year's experience of the rally behind him, but he's not a Scandinavian so he hasn't grown up on snow and ice, and a podium could be asking a lot. He can, nevertheless, make the top six, as he showed last year that he can go fast when conditions are predictable. He can't seriously challenge the experienced Scandinavians, but he will be close.

John Sweeney

I'm a little bit insulted. Don't say 'We're jeopardizing public safety.' That's not right and it's not accurate. All I'm asking for is answers.