Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Matt Damon

We actually begged him to switch roles because he originally cast us flip-flopped and we both felt like we'd done that before. So we asked him and it's more challenging and more fun for everybody if they're doing stuff a little differently.

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

We are pleased with this decision. We asked them to talk to us when they made this change, and they wouldn't. That forced us to go through the court system. And yet again, the courts have supported our position.

We have asked the SLA to give us the coordinate of the position where these attacks have taken place...As soon as they do that, we shall send our team to investigate and establish whether indeed such attacks took place or not.

We were asked last night (Tuesday) if we could disclose what was done on every particular complaint,

Jeff Brown

We've asked Yahoo to use their filtering to prevent piracy, not for profit. We tried to discuss it with Yahoo.

We've asked the government of Libya to identify the source of the interference and resolve the problem. And we'll be continuing to investigate it.

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Joyce Compton

We've asked McKenna to play a lot of positions this year, and she has really done well offensively, too.

Tom Jordan

When we were asked to go down there and help, the city only had four hours to make a decision, ... They said at the time that they couldn't send the men or the truck because of budget constraints and I respect that decision.

Ludivine Sagnier

When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

When we asked the customers we're targeting at Scion what do you think about Toyota, they said it's a mainstream company that's for someone else.

We are all very excited, the kids did everything that I asked of them and more and they were rewarded for that effort. I could not be any more proud of our students. Now it's time to reassess our goals, set new ones for state, and get back to work.

We're keeping it manageable, playing it quarter by quarter. When we were 7-12 and it got to the point where it was looking bleak, we shortened our lineup. We asked some girls to be good teammates and give ups some minutes, and they've embraced it.

We explicitly asked people not to submit divisive themes at cabinet.

We're excited - wish we were 2-0 - but we'll take it. It was a good win for our kids. They've worked hard and they've done everything we've asked them to do and that's all you can ask for.

We're getting pretty much everything we asked for.

We're being asked to bail out the utility companies for billions of dollars, but they're not worth billions of dollars.

Aaron Boone

We?re ready to go. Hopefully, that translates into a good start. I don?t know, it?s a question we get asked a lot.

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.

OPEC has been quietly asked to ease pressure on the world economy,

People are being asked to vote for three candidates; should be asked to vote for only two.

People are being asked to do more and more. I think the state should be paying much more than they are.

Our kids were patient, just like I asked them to be.

Our kids did everything we asked of them, but we couldn't get that ball to go in the basket.

Larry Wilcox

Our guys really responded and came to practice in good condition and did the things we asked them to do. That certainly makes our job easier and we can concentrate on improving in other areas. Our team speed has improved from last year, so we are ready to go.

Our children are regularly asked very detailed questions about their personal lives and parents are seldom notified. Too often these surveys are worded in ways that nearly encourage ... unhealthy behaviors.

Over here the medical treatment is tied to the cooperation with the interrogators. I asked the doctor several times to give me medical assistance but the doctors told me unless I talk to the interrogators, they will not give me help.

Overall, we just don't believe we face inhibitions related to restrictions, ... There has never been a case when higher-ups were asked to authorize utilizing unsavory people that they didn't say, 'Go ahead.'