Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure what happened. There was just an opening and they asked me to take over for the rest of the season on an interim basis.

I'm honored to have been asked to speak at the event, ... Convocations have special meaning for academicians. We hope to be able to share the excitement and the potential as well as the solemnity that characterizes the opening of the school year.

I'm having people come in every day. I've seen three people today, all families with children, who came in for utility assistance who've never asked before, ever.

Eric Snow

I'm happy for those kids. Let those kids know if they work as hard as they can and do what they're asked to, they'll give themselves an opportunity to win the championship. They're a great example for the future kids to come.

Charles Smith

I'm happy for these guys. They've stepped up to the challenge. They've done everything we've asked them to do.

Keith Brooking

I'll be dead honest with you. I've been asked that question a lot this season, even when we were 6-2 and playing really well. You know, 'What about the opportunity to have back-to-back winning seasons?' That didn't mean anything to me at the time because that wasn't my goal or the team's goal. But right now, I have a different perspective.

Mike Wallace

I'll be available when asked for whatever chores CBS News, '60 Minutes,' 'The Evening News,' et cetera, have in mind for me.

I'm concerned that I and my memo have become the issue. This is not gossip. I've asked questions. Are we asking people to sweep things under the rug?

Karen Hughes

I'm asked all the time why it is that liberal Democrats so dislike the president, and the only thing I can think of is because he's effective.

If patients have opportunities to tell their stories, to be asked questions and have the physician verbalize understanding of what's been shared, it leaves them feeling like they were heard.

If somebody would have called and asked my opinion, I would have said, 'Let him play.

If somebody came up to me and asked for my professional opinion, I'd say, 'It's a pile of junk,' ... If a buyer was to come to me and say, 'What do you think of this house?' I'd say, 'You have a lot of work to do.'

I personally asked the sheriff myself, and he said he had no comment. I said, 'What's the reason?' There was no reason given.

I personally asked that he withdraw his nomination.

I only heard of a (few) people that asked about the free gas, and most of them suspected it was simply too good to be true.

I only did it because she wanted to and asked me to come with her, ... I just really didn't want to go at first.

Bob Dole

I once described myself as the most optimistic man in America. Life has taught me to put my faith in the uncounted millions who may never run for office, pass a bill, or craft a sound bite, but who fight our wars and embody the ideals worth fighting for. My contemporaries have been called the greatest generation. It's not a title we bestowed on ourselves, any more than we asked for the hand that history dealt us in our youth. Now I belong to a disappearing generation, perhaps five million in all, forever bonded by the tests we faced so long ago.

Robert Shaw

I once asked Otto Preminger if it was possible for someone to be a character actor and a star. He said 'No.' I'd like to prove him wrong.

Army Archerd

I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.'

I once asked him something at a question-and-answer session in London. He yelled back, angrily, 'You must be an English professor.' He couldn't even see me. He'd discerned it from the question.

I had a communication from a constituent named Dan Boggs. It was sent to me personally He wrote it to me and me only as a board member. In the last paragraph, he asked me to take a specific action.

Pete Carroll

I had a chance to talk to Coach Wooden and asked him about the question of repeating,

John Williams

If we asked the various families to buy computers, this would only have widened the digital divide. So the school superintendent and the supervisors insisted that this be a grass-roots effort. We wanted to ensure that all the children in the sixth grade would have the opportunity to be a part of this.

Adam Smith

I just saw people coming and going, and I asked if I could help.

Shaun Alexander

I just think no one is perfect. If you asked them (the officials), they'll probably say they could have had a better game. You can't take nothing back. What you can say is Pittsburgh won, and everybody has to go and knock them off because they're now the defending champions.

I remember I asked Margaret, 'Well, is there anything I specifically do? Should I give Byron a tour of the course?'

I really thought Roy was going to retire after the Johnson fight. That's what he told me, and I believed it. Then, in June, I went out to his farm. Roy wasn't there. I asked where he was, and his uncle said that he was out doing roadwork. A few weeks after that, Roy got the gym cleaned up. Then he started training; and the next thing I knew, there was a fight.

I recognize that I have asked for a lot of dramatic change out of my staff and that change is hard for some, particularly those who have worked in a stagnant bureaucracy for years.

Daniel Gibson

I remember the first time he stepped into the gym, a freshman with this far-away look on his face. During practice he stopped and asked me questions like, 'What am I supposed to do on that play?' and 'Where am I supposed to go now?' At that point I knew he wanted to make himself a better player. I saw it from Day 1.

I remember being asked one time who was driving, and I guess I mumbled out me, but I don't recall. They said I was swearing up and down I was driving, but I wasn't, I don't remember that at all.

I remember once when my vice-captain came and asked me permission whether he could get married on a particular day because there was a match on. Even the parents of the cricketers come and tell me to look after their children. I am very happy working with them because I have a free hand.

Roy H. Williams

I love the coast, I love the seafood, ... Then they asked me how I like my steak cooked, and that shocked me.

Dusty Baker

I'll just take the same. Everybody asked if last year was a career year. I don't believe in career years. Once you do it once and find your formula, you should be able to do similar. He knows what he's doing now. He has an idea. He knows how to make adjustments quickly. He's very consistent. He recognizes very quickly what the opposition is trying to do to him and he knows his own limitations.