Famous Quotes & Sayings

That was huge, for (O'Donnell) to come in after two innings and keep us going. He kept the confidence alive, threw strikes, and that's all you've got to ask of him. Then it's a matter of scoring runs and coming back, and we pulled it out with a huge hand from him.

That was when the ball came up and hit Ludovic Roy in the face and went in. If you ask me, we owe them one.

Heather Smith

The 2004 elections proved that if you ask them, they will vote. The competition will build on that momentum in 2006 and refine youth-outreach methods.

Heather Smith

The 2004 elections proved that if you ask them, they will vote. Massive outreach efforts resulted in young voter turnout increasing 11 points over 2000 levels - the highest increase since 18-year-olds won the right to vote 35 years ago. Young Voter Strategies' competition will build on that momentum in 2006 and refine youth outreach methods.

Andy Roddick

That was a good tournament because I won some matches. Even when I lost, I did things really well in patches, which is progress, which is all you can ask for.

We have a mishmash of players this year, ... No one knew who we were to start the season, but ask all the coaches now and I bet they know.

Duncan Fletcher

We have always maintained we need a balanced side. Liam Plunkett has come in to do a job, he is a very inexperienced player and we are asking a lot of him at the moment.

We will also be planting native grasses and shrubs in the landscaping beds at Fortress Rosecrans. We are asking for volunteers to come out and help us with the project.

We will aggressively look at products that have had success in other parts of the world for SABMiller. But we're going to be very disciplined in what we ask our system to focus on and support.

We couldn't ask Liz Hurley for her backing, though, because she's not a member of ours. She was, she joined in 1985, but she left in 1998.

We couldn't ask for much more than that from our starters. Now we just need to get our bench more involved and we'll be in good shape.

We could not have asked for a more inspirational partner to create an equally inspirational and entertaining DVD series.

We have written to the Warriors outlining our preliminary findings and have asked for a response in writing by the close of business Friday.

We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.

Joe Torre

We have work to do. But, I couldn't ask for more.

Rene Redzepi

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.

Richard Attenborough

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

Scott Baio

You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.'

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.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.

Rosemary Mahoney

The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China.

Mark Zuckerberg

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'

Meredith Monk

In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It was at a festival in Bremen. The German audience went berserk and the reviews were a phenomenon. For some reason the German audience understood how technically challenging this music was; it wasn't just someone yelling their head off.

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.

Paul Haggis

'Crash' was incredibly personal to me. So was 'In the Valley of Elah.' There were things in 'The Next Three Days' that were questions I was asking myself but couldn't answer, like how far would you go for love? Can you believe in somebody who can't even believe in themselves? But this is highly personal.

Paul Haggis

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

Paul Haggis

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.

Patricia Polacco

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

Mustafa Akyol

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Mstislav Rostropovich

My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'

Patti Smith

Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.

Stella Young

In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to provide one. Believe me, nothing says 'I'm the best person for this job' quite like asking an employer to pay to interview you.