Famous Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't have known it was going on today but my friend called up and told me and asked me to come out and vote.

I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

I guess I'm not surprised the unions are unhappy with the adjustments they are being asked to make, and I am not surprised they banded together to try to get a better deal,

E. P. Thompson

I guess I get asked more about that game than anything else,

Mike Jones

Basically I've been struggling all year, so I just wanted to get the bat on the ball and get a base hit. Coach asked before the game if we remembered the end of the football season. It was a good game for us.

Basically he was fine. He was alert. I talked to him and there was no change in his neurological state. It was the same thing afterwards. I asked him if he had a headache and was dizzy. He said no.

Barry's wife, Linda, had the table set with china, crystal and elegant silverware, but I saw it and told her that just wouldn't work. So I asked if they had any newspaper, and she just poured the crawfish all over that elegant table.

Because of the wonderful people that work with me, I don't ever think I missed a school function. I always had brownies whenever I was asked to bring them, ... It was difficult, but that's when I had to rely on people that surrounded me to help me. It gets back to 'it takes a village.'

Halle Berry

I'm a really good gymnast. I can do splits and back handsprings. I'm always asked to do it on a talk show. And every time I go they say will you do it. I say yeah, but I'm always wearing high heels or a short dress. And I keep saying one time I'm going to go on and wear jeans and sneakers so I can do back flips.

I'm always asked when the lights will go on. My estimate is it will be several weeks before the very last customer at the end of some line will be hooked up.

Jim Haslett

I look up at the scoreboard and there are signs, 'Let's Go Giants'. The referees, when they flipped the coin, they asked us if we wanted heads or tails. They had no idea who the home team was and who was away. The crowd noise we had to deal with, we never had to do a silent count at home.

I lot of people asked me why don't I double because it would be good for me financially, ... I wanted to run a race that made sense athletically because I do have a marathon in two weeks. So I always knew I was going to do a 10K. I missed the course record by 11 seconds (set by Kevin Moats in 1982), so I want to come back and get the record.

I love coach O'Neil, I wish I could have had her for four years. She's focused, driven, just everything I could have asked for.

I have a lot of different pins ... and it all kind of started as a joke, ... I do like jewelry, but when Saddam Hussein called me a snake, I happened to have a snake pin. And I was doing an interview, actually with CNN, and your cameras picked up that I had on a snake pin, and I was asked why and I said, 'because Saddam Hussein has just called me a snake.'

Bill Belichick

I have a lot of respect for what those (three players) have done, especially Rohan, who has been here for three years. He's been a great leader and has done, really, everything that we asked him to.

Rory Kennedy

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want to, but then I asked her and she said 'yes.'

Sparky Anderson

I had Kirby Puckett in '88 in Japan. Kirby, I'll never forget, I asked him one day, 'Do you ever shut up?' and he said, 'No,' and I said, 'Well, keep talking.' He loved to talk.

I had asked on several occasions that the chamber conduct seminars for small businesses on insurance, taxes, what ever the case may be. But we really never saw anything like that and I haven't seen much else.

Ann Jillian

I had asked my body to go through an awful lot, and it had come through with flying colors, and I didn't want to put it through any more,

I had asked Herm myself last week because the rumors were something that was eating at me. And he said, 'I'm not going anywhere.' Those were his exact words. And I slept easy.

Frank Williams

I have asked to meet and he has agreed, I am waiting for a call back,

I have asked Tiffany to take on even more responsibility this season. She has had to deal with more pressure and teams have been very physical with her, but she's been really good at creating space for other players.

Jim Hall

I have asked the United States Navy to provide us with options on how we should proceed in retrieving -- if we are unsuccessful -- in retrieving the cockpit voice recorder by tomorrow evening,

Jacques Chirac

I have asked the services in charge of the investigation to diligently determine the exact circumstance of this drama.

I have asked the players to perform well as individuals, well in their units and well as a collective team. We want to win this game.

Lionel Jospin

I have asked the defense minister to dissolve the GPS,

Jacques Rogge

I have asked that an independent inquiry be started to pinpoint the different responsibilities,

Jan Egeland

I have asked NATO, and I will reiterate that appeal: think bold, think big, think creatively.

I have asked for a report on the medical situation. I want details of the injuries and timings of the operations. It seems to me that if these injuries were known about then they should have been operated on earlier.

I have asked for a report on the medical situation, ... I want details of the injuries and timings of the operations. It seems to me that if these injuries were known about then they should have been operated on earlier.

I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that we get twice a year.

I have been going to him my whole life and I sat in the chair and was going nowhere and didn't want to go to college and asked him if I went to barber college if I could work there. I am glad that he gave me this opportunity and maybe the shop will be able to go another 40 years.

Stephen Harper

I have never been so proud of our great country, and I am honored and overwhelmed to be asked to lead it.