Famous Quotes & Sayings

The family is asking Scott to tell everything he knows and to fully cooperate with the Modesto Police Department. And if Scott has nothing to hide, they ask him to prove that.

The council, to their credit, are approaching this issue with care and asking good questions. We can't see all, we can't do all and we can't know all, but a human relations committee can help improve a community.

The consumers of that oil are now asking whether you intend to use your emergency power to protect families facing soaring heating oil prices in the Northeast,

I'm in favor of moving our remaining high schools to Metro service ... and I am also asking you to join me in working to make sure we treat students fairly whether they come from low-, middle- or upper-income backgrounds.

Brian Rolston

The first thing in the morning he's asking me, 'are we wearing the red or the green jerseys tonight dad?' Before I can even open my eyes in the morning.

The film is about asking questions and presenting ideas and hopefully you take some of the questions and ideas out of the cinema and think about them and discuss them with your friends.

The company's and employees' response to the disaster is heartwarming and encouraging. We're hearing from many people who want to go down and help out, but there is no housing available, so we're asking them to do what they can in their home communities.

The commission has written to the Premier League indicating the reservations we still have about their proposals, asking them to react as soon as possible so we get this sorted out.

The entire team played well. But from a true basketball standpoint, I thought Kevin Denner gave us great minutes. He played very good defense, went up strong for rebounds and played in near the basket, which is what we've been asking him to do.

Earl Klugh

The electric guitar is not my instrument. Really, the nylon strings is where I have my voice. It's like asking the piano player why he doesn't play the organ.

The end result is that we will be contacting the vendors of these applications, asking them to partner with Novell to port their software to Linux.

Jim Allchin

The industry was asking for more certainty. We made a decision to move the date so everybody could be aligned.

James Rothman

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.

You can see he has his father's bloodlines. He understands the game well, his mechanics are there and he's a quick learner. But he's only a freshman and we've told him that we're not asking him to put every game on his shoulders. It's not all on one guy.

The man sitting beside me was asking (about the races), so I was trying to explain it when one of the engines went, plus the hydraulics. After that, it was sort of every man for himself.

Robert Thompson

The uniformed cop just ignored him and kept on walking. You could hear the pleading in Smith's voice, asking the officer what he was going to do, saying, 'Look, you can't just ignore this,' and the cop just kept on walking. It was compelling television.

The underlying philosophy is that the coach is asking questions all the time and shining the spotlight on what the student thinks.

Madeleine Albright

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

The trick is to get other people to promote it. When we built an application for human resources, they sent a broadcast e-mail espousing how phenomenal it was. If I had sent a message saying, 'Look at this great thing we did for HR,' no one would have looked at it. Instead, we started getting e-mails from other departments, asking if we'd develop applications for them.

These are places that need help, and these are places whose leaders have taken ownership of the problems and the international community's investment will be productive. We intend to be vigorous advocates, asking the international community to do more.

These are people who are asking to be taken seriously. Let's find a way to get them legalized somehow. We cannot deport all these people.

These kids just don't see anything, so when you come, they think you're a real celebrity; they keep asking you for your autograph.

Percy Ross

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful -- and neglected -- secret to success and happiness.

Witold Walczak

And that, of course, is the option we are asking the court to take.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And now even composers are proud of asking people to experience silent moments up to two or three minutes in a given piece of music.

All were asking the board to do tonight is to set a date for a public hearing.

Laura Thielen

All we're asking is that you give us a chance and work with us. We'll figure out where to go from here.

All we're asking for is one shepherd's rod.

All we are asking is to have the same opportunity as the other three teams in the competition. If Wales can't beat Italy without Dwayne Peel then you have to ask questions.

William Fox

All we are asking institutions to do ... is to be reasonable,

All through the permit process there were some concerns on the part of local officials. In the end, I think we came up with a plan that passed muster with town officials in Johnson, ... To some extent we can see their point, which is that this will create some new points of potential danger, both on Route 15 and Hogback Road because of parking, but those are more than offset by the hazards it removes by asking every hiker to walk 1.5 miles down the road.

All year long, they've been asking us if this is the end of the sitcom I want to say, yes,' joked