Famous Quotes & Sayings

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Daniel H. Pink

Whenever I meet someone new, I always ask the same question... 'So, what do you do?

When your friend and best client asks you to help his friend, you do it.

Nathan Vasher

There is no need to be all out of whack when you are trying to play the ball. I'm doing what the coaching staff asks me to do, I'm having the right progressions and the right reads. It just looks easy, I guess. Football is one of those things either you can or you can't. I obviously can.

Nathan Vasher

There is no need to be all out of whack when you are trying to play the ball, ... I'm doing what the coaching staff asks me to do, I'm having the right progressions and the right reads. It just looks easy, I guess. Football is one of those things either you can or you can't. I obviously can.

Edan Lepucki

I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

Monica Raymund

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.

Michael Ian Black

Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Dorothy Allison

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

Brian Littrell

I snore. Just ask the others!

Elbert Hubbard

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Thomas Howard

Love... asks that you disavow your attempt to enlarge your own identity by diminishing that of others. It asks that you cease your effort to safeguard your own claim to well-being by assuming the inferiority of others' claims. It asks, actually, that you die.

She's getting a cut rate. She never asks for money back. All she wants is cocaine.

Jenna Morasca

When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.

Karolyn Grimes

Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

Mike Smith

She's more lovable now than ever. She stands on her hind legs and asks for treats - graham crackers are her favorites.

She has the best work ethic. She puts in a lot of extra effort and stays late after work to get things done and she does that on her own no one asks her to.

Mr. Greenspan's 'conundrum' is a central issue here and asks whether the yield curve today means what it used to mean. Even if it does mean what it used to, the record is still pretty patchy anyway.

Jared Diamond

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

The only time the Department of Justice asks for a stay is because it is going down the road of returning an indictment.

Four years ago I'm sitting in Murfreesboro, N.C.., and (UH coach Riley Wallace) asks me to come to Hawaii,

From a win-loss standpoint it is because we put together two good games as far as playing hard and doing what coach Painter asks us to do and we come up short both games.

Alex Turner

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

If a kid asks what happens if I don't do my homework, say, 'I don't know.' All the kids do it.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society

Jacquie likes to take natural fibers and have them form a very contained universe. She uses a lot of materials that seem wild and unruly and she asks them to cooperate.

Joe is a guy who is extremely prepared and extremely positive. He's a guy about relationships and about the team. If a player comes and asks him to sit down and have a few pops, he'll say, 'Let's do it.' He's a teacher who is prepared when he teaches and wants us to be prepared and get it right.

It can be through a fraudulent request for personal information. Nobody asks for personal information by email. Bank and credit card companies do not do that.

Todd Coffey

I will do any and everything. Whenever Jerry asks me to pitch, I?m going to give it everything. My job is to get hitters out.

Albert Pujols

I don't try to compare myself with anybody. I don't get caught up in that because then you might take things for granted. I just try to be the best, go give it my best shot, and that's all the manager asks from me every day.