Famous Quotes & Sayings

We envision customers asking for programs that they want to watch later. This is something that's not worldwide now. Right now, you can get 90-second sports highlights we think what people will want to watch are 15, 20, or 30-minute programs that are downloaded to the hard drive, in the background.

We're always asking each other to borrow stuff.

Those national percentages are pretty reflective of (giving to) UWS. Our most productive strategy is to reach out to individuals. One of my main responsibilities is traveling throughout the United States talking to alumni, cultivating relationships and asking people to contribute to the university. There's kind of a rule in fundraising that 90 percent of your support comes from 10 percent of your donors. The greatest return is really from those individual relationships and from those individuals who make those major gifts.

Hunter Tylo

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn't feel were the moon or the stars.

Holly Johnson

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

Hannibal Buress

I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

Bobby Jones

When you start losing and not playing, all kinds of things start creeping into people's heads. You start asking things like: 'Is this program for me? Do I stay with it?' I'm pretty sure we knew that. You have to play through it and that's what Joel did.

When you sit in this chair at this place, you know if you've got great coaches that somebody is going to come in and steal them. It wasn't a shock when I got a call asking permission (to talk to McDermott). It wasn't really a shock when he'd been offered the job. And it wasn't a shock when he took it.

Whether it be a bottom-line figure or a payment figure, if you only present one number to the customer, you're really asking them to make a decision. But if you present them multiple options, or alternatives, then you're asking them to make a choice.

David Shields

We are really tired of people asking us about our rankings and we have to say we're not ranked because we do not have a full-time day program. We're not doing this just for the rankings, but unfortunately, this is the way the game is played.

Bob Taft

My understanding is that the challengers, at least the Republican challengers, will only be witnessing; they will not be directly asking the election officials to challenge voters, but they will be witnessing the process and then reporting any concerns thereafter to election officials,

One thing is a march. Another thing is a movement. And that's exactly the type of question we need to be asking ourselves. How do we move from a march to a movement?

Nobody's asking them to provide it below cost, they would be given a reasonable return on their network.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Nobody is one asking Western companies to go and lobby the Chinese government to change its behavior. That's not possible. But what we are asking companies to do is change the way in which they respond to Chinese government behavior and the way in which they interact with it, and that they can control.

Sam Riley

'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.

Jeff Greenfield

One of the enduring myths of campaign analysis is that you can actually count the number of 'undecided' voters by asking voters if they are undecided or not. Sometimes, significant numbers of voters actually change their minds.

I was freaked out. I get nervous, believe me. I kept asking the guys if we got bumped. It was like in '99 at Memphis when we didn't make a good pass in round one and then it started raining and raining. Joe Amato would have passed us in the points if we didn't qualify but NHRA gave us all one more chance Sunday morning and we got in. I got no sleep that night.

I was really, really proud of the team. There was sort of a turn-around from the Central Michigan game to the Northwestern game within 24 hours. They came out, played hard, played well. They were doing the things we were asking them to do. They played good hockey.

I would probably give him a big hug. I love having the ball in my hands, I love anything having to do with me running the ball or catching the ball. If he did that, I wouldn't turn it down. I'd be asking 'What play do you want me out there for?

Bobby Bowden

I wish he could have got by without that, but I guess that was asking too much. I thought it was a great call. They had the goal line defense in there and our defense played in real good.

Lance Armstrong

Based on the translation I read of the press release, I'm pleased that the UCI seems to be asking many of the right questions.

Basically, we're asking for monetary contributions right now.

Basically we have a newborn here. We feel very strongly that these two individuals are very dangerous and we don't know what their intentions are. We are asking the public to keep eyes open for their vehicle; have info, call 911.

Basically everyone would be asking congressional committees for investigative documents and records.

Mohsin Hamid

Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,' is the answer. I'm the kind of guy who spends three times as much on his speakers as he does on his television.

Chris has one year's experience of the rally behind him, but he's not a Scandinavian so he hasn't grown up on snow and ice, and a podium could be asking a lot. He can, nevertheless, make the top six, as he showed last year that he can go fast when conditions are predictable. He can't seriously challenge the experienced Scandinavians, but he will be close.

John Sweeney

I'm a little bit insulted. Don't say 'We're jeopardizing public safety.' That's not right and it's not accurate. All I'm asking for is answers.

Katherine Harris

I have been loyal to our Republican leaders here in Florida and in our nation's capital - from Jeb Bush to President George Bush. ... And I have been loyal to the Republican Party and my constituents who elected me to work tirelessly for their best interest. Today I am asking you to return that same loyalty to me by helping fund my U.S. Senate campaign.

I had phone calls from him numerous times asking me does she still love him. I told him if it was meant to be it was in God's time, not his.

I feel they're asking pertinent questions. I'm happy to be here.

For right now, we're asking a lot of a few players. I think that eventually they'll deliver. But what's most important to us is as we get more experienced, that we limit our mistakes and that we get better.

Fund-raising provided extra stress that coaches just don't need. It's just asking us to do too much to be a coach and be a chief financial officer.

If anything, people are going to commit a little larger funds than we are asking for.