Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Dean

I think Wes Clark would be a fine running mate, but I have not asked him to be my running mate.

I think that as I've asked the stock exchange several months ago, they're taking a good, hard look at the way their board is organized, I hope the way the compensation structure is organized, ... We'll see what they come up with.

I think that for the most part, people in the community understood the reasons why . . . we asked them to go to work and go to school. Rest assured, if we don't have a bill we can live with, we will have a general strike and a general boycott.

Jill Abramson

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

I think both contractors are making every effort to comply with what is being asked of them.

I think it was probably my fault. I asked some young guys to do some things that they're probably not comfortable with. I need to keep in mind who we've got on the field during certain sets and not ask those guys to do too much. We kind of switched out of what we were doing earlier in the game.

I think it's very good news, ... The number one question women have asked about (birth control pills) since 1960 is do they cause cancer. This study shows there is no long-term risk.

Johnny Damon

It got twisted around. I just said I'd do whatever the team asked me to do. I just want to help the team win.

It got to the point where her husband asked if I could do something to help her, so I steered her toward a mortgage with a pre-payment penalty.

Kirk Gibson

It happened very quickly. I'm a team guy, and I've been asked to do something, so I will.

It has been a joy and delight to teach these fine young men. Whenever I've asked them to do something, they've always done it.

I think we are relaxed and that is what we need to be. But the kids have worked hard for the last few days. People have asked me if we are ready, but its (the players) job to be ready for this weekend.

Charles Soule

I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I've been working on. It's like being asked to write a 'Star Wars' movie or something like that. You don't know how you're going to handle it; you don't know if you can. You don't know if you should be the guy.

It is obvious that we should not offer to produce what has not been asked for.

It is not what we asked for, but it is all that we are going to get. The intention still is to develop the property. We are going to look for means to perhaps partner with a private corporation to enhance the cleanup.

It is not unusual for us to extend our assistance when asked to help look for missing adults or children.

It is not just all about money. It is about Joey Barton wants to go and where Manchester City want to go. If Manchester City had come back with the offer we had asked for, which in my opinion is below what Joey should be getting any way, then Joey would have signed the contract.

I think that when we take guests on board, they do not automatically surrender their rights to privacy, and they've asked their names not be released and we're honoring that.

Later that night, I was flying. I asked him what was going on and he told me that he put some dope in my drink. I felt the euphoria and the high, and I wanted to do it again.

Tom Joyner

I was working for a competing radio station in Chicago when he asked me what I wanted to do in radio. My response was I wanted to get out. I had my eye on television. And he told me if I would come work for him and make his morning show No. 11, he would give me a shot at television. We kept our promises to each other. After our ratings went to No. 1, he gave me the Ebony/Jet Showcase,

Ryne Sandberg

I went into spring training that first year (with the Cubs) in '82 and No. 23 was hanging up in my locker, ... I thought it was kind of an odd number. I believe I asked for 14 and (former Cubs clubhouse manager Yosh Kawano) totally turned me down and said that number's been taken and retired.

Chris Knight

I went and saw the principal and asked if I could run a donation center here, ... And on her own, Kim asked the same thing about an hour later.

Gary Myers

I welcome it because I asked at the very outset of this for a court of inquiry to bring disinterested fact-finders to bear upon these questions.

John Velazquez

I was where I wanted to be. When I asked him, he responded.

I was actually told by the equipment manager (on Sunday), ... He asked me if I wanted a new number. I said, 'Does that mean I'm on the roster?' He said, 'Yeah.' I guess that's how they do it.

Tom Daschle

I was able to demonstrate how important it is to be at the front of the line as the leader of, one of the two Senate leaders, when I was actually in the Oval Office and asked President Clinton to take Ellsworth off the base-closing list. He did. He did because I'm leader,

Mark Gottfried

I will be completely miffed if this team hasn't done everything that we've been asked to do. I think Ron (Steele) said it best, 'It's out of our hands.

I will point out to you that the governor opposes the initiative. I will point out to you that she asked the Civil Tights Commission to investigate, and that has brought some transparency to what has not been a very transparent process.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.'

Laurell K. Hamilton

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

Grandmaster Flash

I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.

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.