Famous Quotes & Sayings

This strike did not have to occur. We made our top issues clear months ago and simply asked Boeing to do the right thing for their work force.

This started small with just two families, and other kids saw it and asked their parents if they could join in and it just snowballed.

Catherine Hardwicke

You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you're asked to pay the same price for 'Avatar' as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.

Today we asked for a permanent Chinese presence, including naming a permanent envoy to the peace process,

UPA chairperson asked the government to write to the Danish government way back in October last year, expressing the deep sense of anguish, asking for an apology.

Greg Iles

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

Tim Conway

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.

Adrian McKinty

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.

Alan Alda

My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

B. B. King

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

Marianne Williamson

Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Andre Agassi

When I get asked that question, I'm just a bit numb to it really, ... All I can say is how I feel ... I don't know what's going to happen.

Michael Mullen

When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying this time?' because we left last time, in 1989 in Afghanistan, and we sanctioned Pakistan from 1990 to 2002. So I think it's a fair question.

Jack Nicklaus

When asked 'You really know your way around the course. What's your secret?' The holes are numbered.

Yogi Berra

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Bob Dylan

When asked what his songs were about: Some are about 10 minutes long, others are about 5 or 6.

When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.

Doug Harvey

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

Michael Hayden

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

When asked how much do you spend on expenses, I get one set of answers, yet when I look through your bank statements, there is a different picture. Based on what you say you earn and what you say you spend, you should have around $1,000 a month after expenses. But you don't.

Mike Gatting

When asked 'Do you feel that the selectors and yourself have been vindicated by the result?' he said 'I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want.'

We have made every change the commission has asked us to make to the technical documentation, and we are prepared to do more if they request it. Yesterday's announcement underscores Microsoft's commitment to meeting the commission's demands.

Iris Apfel

I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

Stan Mikita

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

Nicola Peltz

I have six brothers and one sister, and I was an ice hockey player when I was younger. I think my dad thought I was going to be in the women's league for ice hockey. But, I totally fell in love with drama in grade school, and I asked my mom if I could get involved with it.

Natalie Zea

I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.

Laurence Yep

My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.

Lisa Murkowski

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.

And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.

We did some soul-searching at halftime. They were in this locker room crying the last two years and I asked them if they really wanted that to happen again.

Frank Rijkaard

We didn't play well. I asked the players to up their performance levels at the break. We gave the ball away too easily and when you push up you give the opposition too many chances on the counter if you lose the ball.