Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Butcher

It's the first party I've been invited to since I've been here. Mind you, some of the players will probably be asking me for new contracts. I'll probably end up giving them after a few glasses of red wine.

It started about 1987 with the Yucca Mountain study. I've been asking for it for 15 years.

Dan Rather

It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions,

It's like asking how do you fly around the moon.

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.

Ernest Bevin

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be hawking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and people started asking if I wanted to write scripts. I quickly realized I could make a lot more money that way.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

Nancy Pearcey

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.

Nancy Pearcey

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

Keith Urban

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

Government doesn't have the money to keep up with the developers, so we're asking them to pay their fair share for traffic they bring into the area.

For the first time in this ongoing saga we are considering and asking our attorneys to explore the possibility of occupancy on the peninsula as a way of settling the dispute.

For now, though, we're asking people who aren't in high-risk groups to hold off. And if you are in a high-risk group, talk to your doctor or get to a clinic.

Irvine Welsh

Are you asking me or telling me?

George Herbert

Many things are lost for want of asking.

I deserve every bit of it. I deserve more than what they are asking back because of the way they went about banning me for two years.

I'd have to give a lot of credit to our safety program for 2005, asking drivers to slow down.

Bobby Frasor

I can't wait. People have been asking me in class, and teachers have been talking to me: 'Are you nervous?' I'm excited. I can't wait. I think Saturday is going to be the longest day of my life.

I can't talk because of the situation and how it changed the play. I'm just asking you guys to write it how you saw it. I can't say anything without being real negative and I'm not going to do that. It's over.

G. H. Hardy

I care too much about the people whose lives and jobs are on the line not to come back and give it all that I have. We're asking taxpayers to sacrifice so much, the least I can do is help explain my position and the position of the board.

Buddy Bell

I don't think the call was made correctly. They have a good crew, and I think they did the right thing by asking the other members of the crew.

I don't think there is anything to mediate. The law is abundantly clear that Muncie has no right to interfere with property owners asking Yorktown to annex them.

I'd seriously consider asking Bob Dole, if President Clinton wins, to be a cochairman, ... but that might be a fantasy.

Corin Tucker

I do think we have a long way to go in terms of the culture around women still being career women, and asking a woman about her career and her work, just seeing them as fully validated human beings in the workplace.

I do think there is a danger. We are talking to the California congressional delegation, asking them to protect states that are in the process of converting.

Viktor Yushchenko

I am asking you for the second time in three days to vote for the stability of Ukraine. Let each side draw conclusions from what happened, learn to keep its word and shun betrayal,

Jim Doyle

I am asking this Commission to explore every option for the 440th, and the people who have been displaced, ... All of us are disappointed by the Pentagon's decision to close the 440th. But the site still has enormous potential for the local economy, and we are determined to see that it gets put to use in a way that creates good paying jobs and contributes to the economy.

I am asking the policy makers to step outside of their comfort zone.

Paul Wolfowitz

I am asking the committee to look for candidates who share our commitment to the Bank Group's mission of poverty reduction, who have extensive experience in developing countries and preferably come from developing countries; and who are dedicated to assuring that the Bank Group is a model of integrity and accountability,