Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Cherry

They're asking the wrong people. There's lots of people, I'm sure, who'd love to carry the flag in.

They're asking for private information, like Social Security numbers and credit card numbers.

They're asking for a $79 million increase with no restraints on how they're going to spend it.

They're asking about paychecks, number one. The weekend everything hit was a payroll week.

They're asking $125 even after I said you know you don't have a contract, what are you doing? They said, bring us our money. That's what I'm going to do,

There's a tradition in politics of asking young people for their votes and time without asking people for their opinions and ideas.

There's been so much learning on the job for the small firms, and that's hard to replicate. It's not the kind of environment the full-service firms are used to. It's like asking horse-racers to drive Ferraris.

There's a lot of sheet metal out there that could blow around and hurt somebody, so we're asking people to stay away for safety reasons.

Ron Dennis

There's a point at which you've just got to take a more moral position and say, you are asking too much, and we are very close to that point.

It's a terrible pun, but it certainly has had a watershed effect, ... Many will start asking the question, 'What's going on?'

It's a better way, I think, to go out and preserve land than always asking the government to do it for us.

It was one of those things where, if the IT department isn't asking the right questions, then the business side is probably not providing the right answers. Then you've got to back step and redesign things.

Larry Brown

It wasn't only him (who was injured) at the time. But he was playing at such a high level. The first 30, 40 games, I thought he got better every game. His stats might not reflect that, but just in terms of what we were asking him to do. It set us way back and it set him way back.

James Johnston

It was really weird, like asking someone for dinner and presenting them with an empty plate,

Calvin Peete

Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

Casey James

I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food - it changes everyday.

Teri Garr

I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me, 'What's your favorite movie?' And I never know what to say.

Alexander McCall Smith

Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.

We start by asking a series of questions to try to get some clues going for us. The first is usually: Do you know which garage you're in? Not everybody does.

Helen Sharman

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

We have seen an increase in pregnant students coming into the university clinic. Our clinic also hands out free condoms, and we have seen an increase of students asking for them.

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States,

When you saw Dwayne in his front yard, you saw Shawn. Dwayne always came by asking for Shawn, until Shawn went missing. They used to just hang in the yard, laughing and joking.

We were asking for provisions, but we didn't have provisions. But we knew with the number of people walking the streets in the city that we clearly had to provide shelter.

Bill Maher

[The Republicans] are always asking the Muslims to denounce their extremists. And I agree with them. But they don't take that note and do it among their own. They don't denounce their own extremists.

Michael Leunig

In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.

We believe that candidate is a glaring example of what is wrong with the system. We think the process is a good process, we're just asking for a tweak here and there.

We've always worked cooperatively with the department, and we're only asking for cost of living increases.

You don't know who's more competent than the next guy until you start asking questions.

Deepak Chopra

Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered.

We are getting dozens of calls a day asking for details about the Medicare prescription-drug coverage.

Usually in these cases, there's always two sides to it. In this case there seems to be one thing the government can do and that's to let him finish high school. I don't think what we're asking for is unreasonable.

We're awfully familiar with one another. It's tough enough beating a team three times. Four is asking for a lot.