Famous Quotes & Sayings

Penelope Cruz

I really dislike it when the media asks young actresses, normally when they're about 23, how they feel about ageing. There are other things to worry about.

Barack Obama

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Travelers didn't want to be in row 13. No one really cares. No one really asks us about it. Only the media.

Yeah, people that don?t know him. If someone calls and asks to speak with Hank, we take a message.

When the court asks to know just how rich pilots can get, her impartiality can be questioned.

We need to push the tempo, get it inside, play hard on defense, and do what coach asks us to do. We have to play good defense first. Defense wins championships and offense wins games.

We intend to support the government if what it asks us to do respects our basic principles and the interests of Quebec. If the government respects those conditions, we will try to let it function for a good while.

Use the Internet to read press releases and other information about the company so that you can take at least three pieces of positive information about them into the interview. You can integrate that information into some of your answers, and it will prepare you to respond well if the interviewer asks what you know about the company.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause

We're desperate for people. It asks for commitment because the clubs are held twice a week but we need to have two people there at all times.

Hamdi Ulukaya

Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'

The preliminary stage of screening in my church is that everyone who volunteers fills out an application. It asks whether they have a criminal history and gives the church permission to do a background check.

Nobody ever asks about the other positions. All they want to know is who the starting quarterback's going to be.

Sebastian Faulks

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

Peter Zumthor

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Singer

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

John Jenkins

Tyco, having been victimized by these defendants, respectfully asks the Court to impose a sentence that reflects the complete impact of the defendants' crimes and makes restitution to Tyco and its employees,

Mack Brown

You know your life is different when your first call is from the president of the United States at 6 in the morning, and your wife asks you if you want to take it.

C. S. Lewis

Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

Chuck D.

My wife told me I'm not famous until someone stops you and asks if I'm that dead guy, so we haven't hit our goal.

Darin Strauss

My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.

My mother knew it was grave, but she has great faith and she said God will do what he has to. My mother has blind faith in the Virgin Mary and she says that she believes that anything she asks of Mary, she receives.

Matt epitomized a team player. He gives everything and asks for nothing. Now he's helping this team try to win a championship. He made some clutch shots.

Sonu Nigam

Whether I am performing for an elite crowd or a crowd of 20,000 people - the moment someone asks for 'Agneepath,' and I respond 'Agneepath' chahiye?' the noise in the crowd, shows that this song has become huge.

Whoever asks to go on the date should pay.

Drew Bledsoe

When I was 21, I just listened to him and didn't say much. Now he asks my opinion.

Gabrielle Zevin

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

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.

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.

Daniel H. Pink

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

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

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

Larry Fitzgerald

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.