Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am so confident, in fact that I have asked the Compensation Committee of our board to pay my cash incentive bonus in GE performance shares for 2005.

Mohsin Hamid

I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention novels by Nabokov and Calvino and Tolkien on one occasion, by Fitzgerald and Baldwin and E.B. White on another. Camus often features, as do Tolstoy, Borges, Morrison and Manto.

Carlos did everything we asked him to do over the off-season - and more,

Scott Stapp

But do you know I was never asked in 10 years if I was a Christian personally? We were only asked if Creed was a Christian band.

He's a very smart young man. He's done all the things that he's been asked to do on a day-to-day basis. There is, in fact, not anything I've seen from him that I haven't liked.

He's going to go to a few Pro Bowls. He's completely unfazed by what he's been asked to do.

He's done everything we've asked him to do. He's adjusted, changed every technique. He's gone in a completely different direction. He's not scared to try something new. And he's stayed with it. And he's progressed daily.

Dan Rooney

He's done everything we've asked him to do.

Chris Jones

He's done everything asked of him. He started here as a body, and then after that he earned his right to be a part of this team.

He's doing what we asked him to do. He brought it all together and he made it more a continuum.

He's doing very well. He was in a pretty good mood. I asked if he had much pain and as of last night, no, he felt pretty good.

The Padres asked us to find a consistent backup man. Steve did a nice job for us on Aztecs basketball, he's well known in San Diego, so he was a very logical and very good choice.

Dave Brubeck

The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adams, Meredith Monk and David Lang) to fill in what Mozart left out,

When they first decided that they were going to do this, they called me into the meeting and they asked me a lot of questions about what we needed. My background is in theater, so I came to it from that direction. We've got a great sound system. We've got 24 wireless body mikes and it's the neatest acoustical theater that I've been in for a long time.

Mike Miller

Under Cherokee Nation law we don't have marriage licenses; we have marriage certificates. Since this ruling, no one has asked to have that certificate certified.

Lorraine Bracco

Well, you know, we've been asked not to speak so it's really hard.

I thought we played well. Oklahoma is a tough squad. We had some tight sets, and a good doubles set. We couldn't have asked for a better warm up for Tennessee on Sunday.

I threw a party and charged people $50, ... Those who couldn't come got an envelope and asked if they could fill it with $10,000.

Micky Adams

It is a great point for us considering what we had to put up with. It was a battling performance and I could not have asked any more of my lads.

Kelvin Sampson

It is a little bit embarrassing to stand up here and be asked about NCAA violations, but you also have to realize we're human and we make mistakes. I made a mistake but we've corrected it and moved forward.

It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should.

Paul Sarbanes

I think the president would serve his own interests if he asked the SEC to release all of that material, ... I think until they do that, people will keep pulling at that thread.

Dan Rooney

I think the potential for us having that kind of rivalry is good, but you have to play them, ... I was asked by a writer in Houston about what I thought of the rivalry of Houston (Texans) and Pittsburgh, and I laughed and said, 'We've only played them once.'

I think the height is where we asked them to put it, the sidewalks are in there, and I'm prepared to vote in favor of the variances they requested. It would be a good thing for downtown, certainly better than the warehouse that's there now.

I think the group has come together because of him. We were all asked to step up a little, but I think he stepped it up even more. He plays half the game, so I think he just makes it easier for all of us.

I thought defensively we played as well as I could've asked for. Our focus was definitely on Davis and we did a good job surrounding her.

I thought both guys did a great job of stepping up when the team needed them. You couldn't have asked any more of them.

Robert Stone

I thought a lot about my attitude toward the world, toward fear and violence, and that I had something to say about these things. If you had asked me then what I was writing about, I would have said, in a kind of Kerouac-like romantic vein, 'America.'

Ryne Sandberg

I thought '23' was kind of an odd number, ... I asked for 14, and Yosh totally turned me down and said that number's been taken and retired. Yosh Kawano has been a good friend of mine, and he was the one that picked that out for me. And that was the perfect number.

Mike Easley

I think the federal response has been good. Everything we've asked them for at this point, they've granted,

Last night (Monday) we were asked if we could take more. We told them we could take 3,000 from Texas.

Last Christmas (2004), the staff had asked me if we could leave it up, so that's when we started.

Lancaster wanted grassroots people to run his campaign in the various counties, and a friend from Goldsboro asked Lyn Shaw to run his (Lancaster's) campaign here in Bladen,