Famous Quotes & Sayings

They approached me and said, 'We would like to do this to avoid recall.' I asked them how many members they had and they never could give me those numbers, ... I didn't do this to avoid recall. I did it because I wanted to.

The wrestling coach came up to me and asked me if I wanted to wrestle. He explained the sport to me, and I said I'd try it out.

What every one of those guidelines say is that if you're going to really significantly change something, you have to have pictorial evidence, and that's what the commission has asked them for.

Whatever we've asked him so far he's done, so we're going to try the dirt now and if he doesn't handle it, we'll still know that we have an exceptional turf horse. He'd only worked one time on the grass before his last race, and he's trained well on the dirt.

William Shakespeare

What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!

What a performance. And we asked him to do it. We gave him the ball a lot, and he came through. There was no secret where the ball was going.

We (the city and Vasko) are going in different directions. I asked him for his resignation.

We talked last night and asked everybody to try to feel what it would feel like to win. We wanted everybody to see that picture. ... The one thing different in the past was deep down, we didn't believe we could beat them. We felt we could this time.

We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right now.' He and me talked about my Navy career. He told me he was in the Navy. He showed me his card and asked where I was from. He asked what I was doing in the area. He was a good man. He was a God-fearing person. He didn't deserve to die.

Elizabeth Stanton

Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on preceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

Sylvia Hatchell

We just talked in the locker room that this is great. I congratulated them and asked if this is good enough. And they said, 'No.' They want to do bigger and better things. They're special kids, they have great chemistry and they have fun.

We just had to put it in the hands of the Lord. We knew Stan was doing what he wanted to do, so we just prayed a lot and asked the Lord to take care of him.

We just gave them a few basic instructions and they didn't really do what I asked them to do. I asked them at halftime, they play a very compact game and they like to start everything in the middle and work their way out, so I asked our guys at halftime to start playing the ball wider and over the top of their last offender and they just didn't do it as much as they should have.

We weren't sure if he'd be able to play today. We had so many kids banged up this week, we asked if our team bus could get a handicapped sticker.

We were performing in Puerto Rico one time. I'd had surgery and couldn't perform the dance routines. The crowd was calling out, 'La colora!' He couldn't figure out what that meant, though he spoke fluent Spanish. Finally, someone said, 'The redhead!' They wanted me to dance. He tried to explain why I couldn't, saying I'd had surgery. 'Want to know where she had it?' he asked the crowd. 'In Las Vegas!'

What that means, ... is when we are asked to provide intelligence on a particular topic, we do so without shading or shaping the information in any way. It is not a question of partisan support.

What's very disturbing to me, is that there were administrators who were around who heard everything that happened in the hallway and they were not asked to give statements. Then this young lady disappeared for an hour and a half and returned to school. The police were called and she was not found. When the police left, she turned up. I'm very disturbed by that.

What's the single biggest thing the audience wants to know about? The most often asked question I get is not about the plays or the actors. It's about the seats.

Mitch Albom

when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

Drew Brees

We went into a couple of sports equipment stores and asked if they had heard of Darren Bennett, ... They all said he's great; he made it to America.

We went around house to house and asked the people if they liked the idea.

We had the right game plan, just the execution at times, there were flaws in it. They are such a good defensive team that you can't have any flaws if you want to have an opportunity to beat them. Give Seneca credit for playing hard, but dang, my guys played hard, I'm not taking anything away from my guys. (Jensen and Brown) did everything I asked them to do tonight; they represented Plano High School very well.

We will not pay for an interview for Real Sports . Some former teammates and old-timers have been asked to do a lot of these and ask for payment. But we just don't do it. Once you start, where does it end?

Jay Feaster

When I talked to (St. Louis in August), he asked me what we were going to do with Andy,

When I talked to her before the game, she asked whether or not we could get two games in. I said that we did not come here to play two; we just came to play one.

When I spoke to him he wasn't respectful. He just chewed on a straw when I asked him to take it out of his mouth.

We had a bad seeding meeting and we didn't get help from coaches in our conference. At the end of the day, I wanted them to see why I asked for the seeds I did.

We had 29 wins last year and 30 this year, and if somebody asked what the difference was I'd say Bruce Carter. He makes us better. He's unselfish, and he lets Weems step to the spotlight and let's Passos step to the spotlight a lot. Carter just does what he had to do.

to the inferences to be drawn from the uncontested fact that ... before this December 17th phone call, the president and Ms. Lewinsky had had discussions about what she should say if asked about her visits to the Oval Office.

Ben Shahn

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

Brian Keene

'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

Ikue Mori

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

Imre Kertesz

No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.