Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Akin

American workers like those at Boeing and its supplier companies aren't asking for a handout, or a leg up. They are asking for a chance at fair competition.

All of our members have been asking us for new methods to increase sales.

All she's asking for is the meals to be served here so these people have somewhere to eat.

Michael Buble

I had done an interview with 'Hello' magazine. In it, they asked me if I was going to marry Emily Blunt. Of course, what was I going to say? I said, 'Oh yeah I am going to marry her and I love her and all of this stuff.' It's true. I was making a joke. They said to me, 'Have you asked her?' I said, 'Have I? Maybe I am asking her through the magazine.'

Mary Astor

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Martha Stewart

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

Teri Garr

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Jack Welch

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

The entire team played well. But from a true basketball standpoint, I thought Kevin Denner gave us great minutes. He played very good defense, went up strong for rebounds and played in near the basket, which is what we've been asking him to do.

Earl Klugh

The electric guitar is not my instrument. Really, the nylon strings is where I have my voice. It's like asking the piano player why he doesn't play the organ.

The end result is that we will be contacting the vendors of these applications, asking them to partner with Novell to port their software to Linux.

William Petersen

The culture had just been through this postmodern period of green tea and Buddhism, with everybody asking the big questions. People were lost. These guys had answers. You see a close-up of a broken toenail inside a shoe, and that becomes an important clue. Instead of the big things, it's about the littlest things. And they become the most important things. It's a new way of perceiving, and I think that spiritual aspect of the show is why people keep watching.

Brian Rolston

The first thing in the morning he's asking me, 'are we wearing the red or the green jerseys tonight dad?' Before I can even open my eyes in the morning.

The film is about asking questions and presenting ideas and hopefully you take some of the questions and ideas out of the cinema and think about them and discuss them with your friends.

The company's and employees' response to the disaster is heartwarming and encouraging. We're hearing from many people who want to go down and help out, but there is no housing available, so we're asking them to do what they can in their home communities.

The commission has written to the Premier League indicating the reservations we still have about their proposals, asking them to react as soon as possible so we get this sorted out.

Michelle Obama

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

Seth Godin

Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

Margaret Mitchell

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

Margaret J. Wheatley

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.

Patrick Kelly

The hope is that people will get hit in the pocketbook enough times so they'll correct the problem, ... It's a mounting problem we're trying to address. We've been asking people to play nice, and it hasn't been working.

Hemant Mehta

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

Lisa McMann

You're asking for trouble, Hannagan," he growls. "And you would be....?" Janie asks. She giggles. "Trouble.

Johnny Depp

I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.

John Tukey

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

James Rothman

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Jim Allchin

The industry was asking for more certainty. We made a decision to move the date so everybody could be aligned.

Percy Ross

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful -- and neglected -- secret to success and happiness.

Witold Walczak

And that, of course, is the option we are asking the court to take.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And now even composers are proud of asking people to experience silent moments up to two or three minutes in a given piece of music.

All were asking the board to do tonight is to set a date for a public hearing.

Laura Thielen

All we're asking is that you give us a chance and work with us. We'll figure out where to go from here.