Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Haggis

These films aren't liberal films. Since when is freedom of speech and the independence of the fourth estate a liberal issue? All these films are truly American. They're not taking one stand or another. They're asking questions, not painting billboards.

This has been some of the roughest two or three weeks as a coach. You call all your mentors, your dad, you're asking coaches what do you do when you're going through these type(s) of situations, you're reviewing tape and talking to guys and part of the problem was we're playing every other day. We haven't had much time to work on things and guys are having to learn on the job, which means you're going to lose a few games.

This is a long-term mission. We are asking for a two-year lease with the possibility of a two-year extension.

Jerry Sloan

All I'm asking for from these guys is for them to compete hard ... If you like the game enough, this is what you want.

All I am asking (my players) to do is the simple things and do it well. To pass the ball ten yards, find a position and pass it again.

Rafael Marquez

A letter has been sent to the football league and football federation asking that they look into the nationalisation of Messi.

A legitimate charity will not send you an unsolicited e-mail asking for money -- that's not how a professional charity works,

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.

You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.

Chris Colfer

Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?'

Visiting the shelters and what-not, everybody knows we're playing ball and every time we go in there they are asking 'When are you going to play' and stuff like that. I think they're looking forward to something like that - something to keep their mind off certain distractions going on in their life right now.

Users are beginning to question whether the WIPO has gone too far in the extent to which it is using these fees to cover the costs of the rest of the organization. In addition, the climate in the organization has changed in recent years, in that it has become more politicized. The staff has doubled, to 938, and governments are asking whether the new additions are qualified and really necessary.

Dusty Baker

You guys are asking me stuff that he's not even answering.

You can see he has his father's bloodlines. He understands the game well, his mechanics are there and he's a quick learner. But he's only a freshman and we've told him that we're not asking him to put every game on his shoulders. It's not all on one guy.

The man sitting beside me was asking (about the races), so I was trying to explain it when one of the engines went, plus the hydraulics. After that, it was sort of every man for himself.

Robert Thompson

The uniformed cop just ignored him and kept on walking. You could hear the pleading in Smith's voice, asking the officer what he was going to do, saying, 'Look, you can't just ignore this,' and the cop just kept on walking. It was compelling television.

The underlying philosophy is that the coach is asking questions all the time and shining the spotlight on what the student thinks.

Madeleine Albright

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

The trick is to get other people to promote it. When we built an application for human resources, they sent a broadcast e-mail espousing how phenomenal it was. If I had sent a message saying, 'Look at this great thing we did for HR,' no one would have looked at it. Instead, we started getting e-mails from other departments, asking if we'd develop applications for them.

These are places that need help, and these are places whose leaders have taken ownership of the problems and the international community's investment will be productive. We intend to be vigorous advocates, asking the international community to do more.

These are people who are asking to be taken seriously. Let's find a way to get them legalized somehow. We cannot deport all these people.

These kids just don't see anything, so when you come, they think you're a real celebrity; they keep asking you for your autograph.

It's been great. This is our fourth office. The coworkers have really enjoyed seeing the car and asking questions.

It's been crazy and hectic. A lot of people calling, coming up and asking for tickets. I don't have any more. We only get four, and they're going to my immediate family.

It never enters my mind, unless someone calls and has something they'd like to write about it. And every once in a while I'll get a piece of mail, asking me to sign something.

It's a matter of them getting used to each other and what I'm asking them to do.

It's a minor improvement, but it's something that students have been asking for,

It's a mess by asking every county to apply, and it's a mess that should never have been created.

Uma Bharti

This is not good and it is not good for the party's image. The stand, which the BJP has taken on the issue of lawmakers who were caught taking money on television for asking questions, is not right. It will dent the party's image.

This is not about money. Nobody is asking for compensation.

This is something we've been asking for for 20 years.