Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Newdow

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

The day before the ceremony, I was given a big black case and asked to polish the contents. When I opened it up, it was the America's Cup. Robbie and I polished it, and then I got a picture with him holding the cup.

Paul Reiser

The day after I finished writing it, I literally called him the next morning and asked him if he'd please read this,

A minister asked a little boy how to get to the Post Office. After the little boy told him, the minister said, Why don't you come to church tonight? I'm giving instructions on how to get to heaven. After thinking a minute, the boy replied, I don't think so. You don't even know how to get to the Post Office.

All of them told me they were asked to destroy certain records. And they did.

All the 151 international (humanitarian) staff who left on November 11 and 12 and were temporarily relocated to Amman have been asked to return to Baghdad today.

All responsibility for this lies on the shoulders of the international tribunal. He asked for treatment several months ago, they knew this. They drove him to this as they didn't want to let him out alive.

And for them, asking for help is a sign of weakness. When in fact, they've asked for help many times in their professional careers to solve problems.

The mayor's understandably concerned. He's asked the general manager to get to the bottom of it and determine how we could prevent this from occurring in the future.

David Hoffman

The mayor has asked only one thing of me -- to take all necessary steps to find wrong doing in city government and to expose it. If this requires big plans, I stand ready to put them in place.

The mayor has asked his Fire Commission to evaluate the recommendations made in the controller's audit and come up with a plan for implementing them and determining the feasibility of implementing them.

Jerry Greenfield

The mayor asked me to come to a meeting. I had no idea of what it was all about till I got there.

The meet wasn't about the varsity guys. It was more about the JV guys, and they exceeded everything I asked them to do. I thought they were phenomenal.

Jennette McCurdy

I wanted to be in 'Star Wars' when I was six years old. I asked my mom for two years, and she told me I was crazy.

Kurt Vonnegut

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Bill Jones

Times have sure changed. Yesterday a bum asked me if I could spare $2.75 for a double cappuccino with no foam.

Roy Keane

A taxi driver asked me about that the other day. It's too early to judge the players. I've played four or five games, probably three of them in the middle of the park which is my position, so I think it's too early for me to be to making judgments and statements about other teams and players.

at a point you've asked too much of human beings and it's not intelligent to keep going.

Mike Gundy

As soon as Fedora was hired, it didn't take (Johnson) long to figure out that we'd split the tight ends out more. He knew that wasn't gonna be him so he asked if he could move down.

asked that his name be withdrawn and we honored that request.

asked me to take the car up to speed.

As we set those plans in place, we knew there was a pricing element, and we went to the factories and said, 'We need you to reduce expenses by hundreds of millions of dollars.' They got about 80 percent of what I asked for.

As we have the last three years, we asked past and present teammates and other New York sports figures to participate in our fundraising golf tournament, ... Despite their often busy schedules, many of these athletes, coaches, team executives, announcers and writers came to help us raise money for a truly good cause.

A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?" "Not one," she answered, "except the lack of a minister's wife.

As we worked through the entire process, we tried to do all we could to accommodate the community. This is indeed another way to accommodate the community. This could have been much more litigious. We decided not to go this route. ... We definitely don't want to be in a situation where we're at odds with what elected bodies asked of us ... what the community asked of us.

As we were preparing to go on the trip, I e-mailed the church and asked them what their 'wish list' of donated items would be.

All players go through lulls and the real testament is what you do about it. Carly asked for extra workouts and has done more in the last two weeks than anyone.

Joe Horn

All people have asked of me was, 'Joe, please win football games for us. Give us some kind of hope,' ... And that is what makes us feel so good. It wasn't about who made plays or who did what. It was about winning that football game for the fans in New Orleans and around the world, because our fans are everywhere.

Janet Weiss

A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.

Billie Armstrong

The most dramatic entrance for an autograph was probably when I was in Edmonton Alberta Canada or... whatever, and she jumped on my back and asked for the autograph. She was so cool and she said she wanted to be in a band... Well, whoever that was, I totally support you!

The more you make, the more you will be asked to contribute.

A colleague asked me how many lawyer jokes there are. I told him just three ? the rest are documented case histories.

A bump being the fact that everyone we've asked to purchase right-of-way from has not said yes.