Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was not asked to serve on one. I think it was an oversight by our president.

Mats Sundin

I wasn't asked to, but I know a lot of our guys did it.

Cindy Sheehan

I was never told that I couldn't wear that shirt into the Congress. I was never asked to take it off or zip my jacket back up. If I had been asked to do any of those things...I would have, and written about the suppression of my freedom of speech later.

I would not have even asked my dog to live in there,

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.

Bobby Crosby

I would love to have Macha come back. Macha has helped me through some tough times last year and this year. I don't know if it's in the cards, but if they asked my opinion, I would love to have Macha back.

My biggest concern is that Sidney gets the proper help and gets healthy and gets his life in order. I touched base with him (Wednesday), he actually called and thanked me for everything, all the support. He said he'd keep in touch me and I wished him good luck and asked him to please keep in touch with me.

Microsoft has shown it will dip into its huge cash reserves to settle the private cases that it can. Regulators have asked for Microsoft to let down its guard on what it considers its most valuable asset -- intellectual property.

Microsoft asked us what could be problematic with Vista, so we told them.

Jerry Hall

Mick asked where that left him, ... James replied, 'Dad, you wear makeup, you wear funny costumes and you wiggle your bum on stage in front of thousands of people. What do you think it makes you?'

While the court has held that the 'government' must face the consequences, the government shouldn't be asked to foot the bill,

When the construction people told me 2008, I screamed and yelled and asked what happened.

Wayne Taylor

Long Beach has always been a very big event in racing. I think it is fantastic that we have been asked to come race here. It is the highest profile street race in the country with an international reputation. As the first street race, it's going to be new and pretty exciting. The most difficult thing will be finding places to pass cars. I think it will be a very good event.

Look at the subcomponents -- what are inventories and new orders in this case? ... If I were the purchasing manager at a hospital and somebody asked me about 'new orders,' what would I count? Syringes? Patients? At a bank, what's 'inventory?' Palm Pilots? Mortgages?

Jack Roush

Mark Martin probably said it well in terms of the drivers, ... Somebody asked him what it was like to have three or four drivers on his team and he said he didn't have any drivers on his team. He said if they were on his team, they'd be trying to help him win races.

Frank Beamer

Marcus is a good person. He made some questionable judgments, but as far as working hard to get back and making this a successful ending, he's done everything that we've asked and has had a great summer of preparation and a great preseason of preparation.

Marc's relationship with the president is so solid that when Poland was deciding what jets to buy, (Secretary of State) Condi Rice called Marc and asked him to speak to them on America's behalf.

Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.

Lina Rolland, the program facilitator, is fantastic with the kids. She asked if he wouldn't mind just watching, and within a couple of weeks, he was in the program.

I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh?

I wish we had asked her more questions than we did.

I wish I wasn't here. But the loss of Stephanie, Tony and Zoe is a loss that won't go away. Many people have asked me about my response to this event. They say 'you must hate these people,' but we don't.

Alice McDermott

I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.

I was the youngest guy in the union. At 14! A pianist around there who became my mentor for a little while, gave me my first night club job. I was 17 or so. My father asked the club owner to watch me so I didn't get into any wrong things, ladies and drink and this and that.

I was traveling in Virginia, South Carolina and Florida after the State Tournament. Before, when people saw a Rose Hill shirt they asked about O.J. (Mayo). This time, I was asked if I was coach of the little school that made it to the girls' state championship game. I'm not kidding.

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

Randy Johnson

I was used to a few reporters in Phoenix who would walk by in passing and asked me how I was feeling. Here, I had 10 guys asking me about two innings in spring training.

Steve Mariucci

I was trying to shift the receivers around, and I asked Roy if he could play the Z (flanker) position for the rest of the game. He said he didn't think his leg was up to that. I had to base things a lot on his decision. I can't feel how much his leg hurts.

Jason Dunn

I was thrilled with both groups. I could not have asked for it to be much better than this. It is not like we rested this week. We had two workouts this week, so this is a good start, and we will be able to move forward from here.

I was the one who spent time on the budget looking to say is this expense reasonable, is that expense reasonable. I asked questions that didn't tend to get asked.

Rita Ora

I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'

Justin Upton

I was having a little trouble, ... That girl could sleep in that class and get an A. She's that smart. I asked her to give me a little help. That's how it happened. She was tutoring me, and there was something there.

Frankie Dettori

I was happy to stay off the pace but when I asked him to quicken, he went away.