Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alessandra Ambrosio

Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing.

There are over 40,000 job boards out there. We asked ourselves how we could distinguish ourselves.

Its not going to be easy to replace a guy like Sergio, but we like what Larry brings to the table, ... Hes fast, and up to this point, hes done everything that we could have asked him to do. He probably wont be the type of scorer as Sergio, but as far as getting other guys the ball, hes going to do just that.

Sven Eriksson

It's not an easy group, but it could have been worse, much worse. I asked to avoid the Netherlands and we did that and I asked to avoid Australia and we did that as well.

Carlos Menem

Eighty percent of the measures he (Cardoso) asked for was passed (Wednesday) in the Brazilian Congress. He is calm and thinks that in two or three days this will have totally cooled down.

Each of the five delegates was given $6,000. I never asked for any money nor received any.

Each Mules' team the last 12 years had their own mark on the school and on the program in some way. All I've asked this year's team to do is put their stamp on what is a great program. That's the thing; just defining their own team.

Everyone considers Scotland as underdogs and that is a fantastic title to have. We will look after our game, prepare very well and if the players do the jobs asked of them then I think we will put up some strong opposition.

Everyone I asked thought it was a good idea. I thought it would be a great way for the kids to share their talents with the community, that could, over time, be a fundraiser for the organization.

Everybody seems to have questions about this or that, but he's worked fine and done everything we've asked of him coming up to the race. He couldn't be better.

The board of elections made a mistake in fact and law, and we've asked the Superior Court to take a look at it.

The board asked us to landscape the median, but we will only plant grass. Any kind of planting will be up to members of the community.

The bond market doesn't really care about the payrolls data now because you're even getting the crazy question asked about whether the Fed can ease.

The biggest change we made in June was we asked for peoples' information before we gave them the car-pricing information. After we made that change, a lot more of our visitors stuck around on the site.

The best way to ensure security is not to talk about it. What I can say is that all the funds requested have been provided. We asked the government for a ($12.22 million) budget increase and we received it.

Nobody asked where the photo came from, because no one thought of this as anything more than a picture of Brooklyn and Queens,

Robert Stephens

Nobody asked what the parents were giving. Nobody. What do we do with that? Can you rely on that? That sort of sloppy, horrifying, inconsistent, scientifically unreliable material to send a woman to prison for something she didn't do?

David Pelletier

Nobody asked us how we'd like to receive (their gold medals). It sure wouldn't have been the way it was done. But you quickly realize the athletes have no say in what happens at the Olympics except for your performance. After that, you lose control.

The ballads came from being a Motown girl, and my greatest influence was Tina Turner. I must have seen her 10 times. I got to meet her one time, and she asked me to go on the road with her, but I couldn't go. I had a brand-new baby. It was probably good for me because I still had some growing up to do.

The attorney general received FBI briefings, and challenged the FBI to do everything possible to confront the threat, ... He repeatedly asked them, 'What are you doing? What more can we do?'

James Comey

The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

There's this terrific kid in Maine who saw all the waste generated by straws handed out in restaurants. So he made up these little pop-up cards and asked restaurant owners put them on the tables to explain why straws wouldn't be handed out unless requested. Of course, the restaurant owners couldn't resist a 9-year-old kid, and so it worked.

These officers are desperate. They have done everything the city has asked them to do.

This is just a very, very, very frustrating feeling to watch these kinds of things happen on the floor. There were times I turned around and looked at my other coaches and just asked what was going on out there. You just can't win basketball games when you don't take care of the basketball and you don't rebound as a group. We did neither down the stretch when we had to.

This is intended to please some political factions who have asked for this. Their evaluation will probably solve this political crisis.

Kate Winslet

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'

Emma Bunton

On being asked where she stayed in France: 'Florence.'

David McIntosh

nothing of this magnitude ever happened in the Bush Administration. First of all, George Bush wouldn't have asked if it could happen, and then folks around him would have said, 'No, that's not appropriate.'

Not really. Jon has never asked me for anything and if he hasn't asked me I don't want to go and stick my nose in his business. He has done a pretty good job on his own. The Busch cars drive a little different, and I'm sure he's got guys on the Busch side that he talks to.

Nothing's decided. They asked me to come down and look at their situation and I said I would. I'm waiting to see what they're going to offer me and to hear from them what they're thinking. That's where it's at right now.

The New Order under Suharto was basically a system of tax farming. Your job was to get the bridge built and as long as it got built nobody asked questions.

After Steve and Bob split, Bob asked if I'd be willing to take over. I was honored.

Green Day

After the release of Nimrod, Tre's asked what Green Day will never do: We'll never sellout, we'll never sign to a major label, we'll never get played on MTV.