Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm asking each of you to help me save this festival. We've done everything we can.

Kathleen Blanco

I'm asking all of you to do your very best to get as many people to safe ground as possible. It occurs to me that a lot of people went to bed last night thinking that hurricane was going to Florida, ... I got a report at 7 o'clock that there were about 700 people doing Little League ball in the New Orleans area.

If over time the World Baseball Classic works the way we hope it will, I think the next time there is a discussion it will be the IOC asking us to come back.

I opted to give him a break after the Manhattan. He didn't have any major problems. I've been pointing for this race for a long time. I figure he runs well fresh, and he wants to go the distance. Naturally I'm a little nervous bringing him back off the layoff and asking him to go this far, but I think he should run well.

John Gould

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

If the U.S. economy slows down, U.S. demand for domestic goods will slow down. The tension between slower overall growth and increased need for exporters will result in more companies asking for protection.

If Wasps had come here (Bristol), put 50 points on us and we had to face Saracens the following week, with the best will in the world, you would have been asking a few questions of yourself and having a few doubts.

If you're asking me, ... it's a touchdown.

If you're asking me if we would have taken that deal, then no, we would not have taken that deal. But that doesn't mean it's a bad deal for Excite.

If you're asking me if I think I'm that back, yeah, I know I'm the back you can grind it out with and close out a game,

Rick Carlisle

If you're asking me if having Ron back is a plus, absolutely.

Aaron Heilman

If you're asking me, certainly I'd like to start. They haven't said anything to me yet, one way or another.

If you're asking if we should reinvest all our profits, I'm all for it. But I don't think our shareholders would understand.

Julius Genachowski

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

If you look carefully at the way that they gathered data for that report, it was simply a matter of interviewing police officers and asking them if they profiled based on race. Not surprisingly, they said no.

If you look at why people are not buying PCs, most of the things I've seen say it's not price, it's the usability, ... Consumers are asking themselves, 'Why do I need to upgrade?' So by reducing prices, I don't know that there is this huge unmet demand that's going to bring in a lot of new purchasers.

Jeff Koons

If you've got the business community coming in and asking for a dramatic tax cut, one of the first things on the chopping block is going to be the development board, ... There's some tension there.

I liken it to police officers pulling over people and asking for their tax returns.

I kind of laughed. I was so stunned. I didn't know why she was asking and what it had to do with basketball. I didn't know what the problem was.

I'm looking at where this team has been and what we're asking people to do, and I think we're a lot closer today than we've been at any time this season.

I'm literally asking the canvas, when I do my best painting.

I'm letting my friends and family know I'm OK and asking them to pray for New Orleans,

Phil Niekro

I'm learning as the years go by how many great athletes and coaches there are up here. I've been living on the lake here since 1987, and I keep asking myself why I didn't move here sooner.

Phyllis George

I'm getting all these calls from casinos asking 'Are you locked in? Barry Manilow was all over us, inviting the girls to the show, but we couldn't fit it into the schedule.

Don Porter

I'm optimistic. Everyone I've talked to is very supportive at least to come back and give us an opportunity for another shot at it. That's all we're asking for.

David Gregory

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

John Cairns

IM is becoming a mainline way in which people do work in the enterprise and customers have been asking for a secure IM client, and we are now offering them this. This is the workhorse release for business users.

Ang Lee

I'm so proud of the movie. Why they didn't go for it, I don't know. You're asking a question that I don't know the answer. ... Congratulations to the 'Crash' filmmakers.

If life keeps asking you the same questions....You are NOT learning the lessons...

Peter Cullen

If I were the minister I'd be grabbing the chief executive by the ear and pulling him over and asking him what's going on.

I haven't changed my view that if we're asking players to deliver performances of the greatest intensity they should be granted every opportunity to give of their best. It's not happening the way I wanted and the players are caught in the middle. We've had to change our training but it's a matter of getting on with it.

Chris Carpenter

I had no idea. They were asking for the ball and I didn't know why. I didn't know until I came into the dugout.

William Martin

I had situations where they were bringing, you know, I started asking what's on the truck before you bring it here. Because if it's clothing, we can't use that. We have too much clothes already people are not using.