Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Gordon

I would like to get a call from Goodyear to do a tire test because they haven't called us to test for a while. I feel like we have paid the price a little bit. We have called them and asked them why we aren't tire testing.

If the typical seller got 102 percent of what he asked a month ago -- but now gets just 88 percent -- you know that prices are softening.

If the governor asked for it, we're going to get it for her,

Doug Larson

If someone had asked me after the eruption what it would have looked like after 25 years, I would never have guessed it would have been like this.

He was assaulted and robbed so I gave him a few more days to move out. He asked me for a few more days and I thought it was the right thing to do.

He was asking all these questions, wanting to know what the deformity was. I asked him why he needed to know that and he told me that any time there was a birth defect or a deformity they had to know all about it because it had to be reported. But they did not report it.

He was asked to meet those guys. They ate supper and these guys started lecturing Craddick how badly nursing homes needed tort reform.

He was asked to be a father figure to my two younger sisters. He didn't have to take on that responsibility whatsoever, but he did. That's when I knew we were going to fine from that point on.

We are thrilled to be able to give our customers what they have been asking for. Customer service is very important to us and we survey each and every customer we have. The women have consistently asked for these new socks.

Michael Hirst

When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

We had yard sales, we asked for donations. We did a kite festival.

We had heard the rumors all week. Even though you hear the rumors going on, it's a tough thing to really prepare for. Of course, in my opinion, I would like to have him back. I'm not exactly sure why he wasn't asked back.

We had a lot of parents, many unfamiliar with classical music, say that they really liked Ravel. They asked to keep it after the study, because it was helpful in putting their baby to sleep, or calming the baby at feeding time.

We had a little meeting (Wednesday) and asked the players to take stock of where they were. We challenged them to improve, and they did it.

Emma Roberts

We had to shoot the Last Splash dance scene, and that was the song that was playing. So we probably heard that song about a hundred times, and I got back to L.A. and they asked if I wanted to sing that song.

Kyle MacLachlan

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

Kurt Braunohler

Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of 'Bunk,' asked me to come get involved in very early process when they wanted to make a game show.

We're giving the citizens what they wanted, what they asked for.

Robert Palmer

I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.

Ron Hill

We're not completely satisfied. I don't think we ever will be. There are a lot of questions that we asked that were never answered. My wife and I never believed from Day 1 that this was an accident.

Karolyn Grimes

Like for instance, there's a point where Mary and George are asked to go to Florida with Sam Wainwright and his wife. Very subtly, (Mary) rubs her tummy -- and that night she tells him she's on the nest.

Luke asked to take the 'C' off. I said, 'As far as I'm concerned, you're our captain.' Luke said he'd thought about it and he believed he had good reasons for doing this. He just thought it was time.

Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.

Jake Busey

Let's say you would see me in a lot more big movies had I done movies that I'd been asked to do playing bad guys. Now that I have a child on the way, I think that you'll probably be seeing me play more bad guys. If that's what's going to put bread on the table, that's what I'm going to be doing.

Pete Carroll

LenDale White got asked about 30 questions to try to get him to say something. He was true to his word the whole way through and somebody thinks they got something out of him. Our guys are great, competitive kids and they want to play and they want the ball. I think that's a really good attribute.

Louis was with us in the fall, kind of just went through the whole thing on his own. I think he's put himself or giving himself another chance, but he has, to this point, done everything we've asked him to do and will continue to do the same and ... is excited about his new opportunity.

Lionel Hampton

Louis asked me do I know anything the instrument, and what was it, and I explained it to him. So he said, 'Could you play something on it?' I said, 'Sure,' you know.

Laura Mvula

Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

Lots of people have come in here and asked me whether it is safe to go to the Eiffel Tower. This is really hurting the city's image.

One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she did. She said, 'It was more.'

Alice Oswald

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

Obviously, we got off to a slow start. I asked a couple of my players if they wanted to go home.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?'