Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I had the capital. He had the idea, ... The system worked out. Right away, professional traders started asking if they could join us. We made the decision back then to take the trading out to Main Street America.

Anthony Swofford

I never saw it as a political book, ... I wanted to open up a world that people might not know anything about. It's up to the people who go to this movie to decide how they feel about it, just like it's their job as Americans to decide how they feel about the war. We're asking the viewer to take responsibility for how they feel.

It's a minor improvement, but it's something that students have been asking for,

It's a mess by asking every county to apply, and it's a mess that should never have been created.

Barbara Thompson

It's cool. It's reverse modeling really. Instead of taking a structure and finding out what vibrational modes it would exhibit, we're taking the vibrational modes and asking what is the structure that exhibits these modes... It's a tough science. You've got to measure for a long time and you've got to be extremely accurate, but if you do that you can ... infer a lot about the interior changes in the sun.

John Breaux

I've had feelers put out to me by low-level people in the Bush organization, mostly campaign-type people, asking if I would be interested in serving.

William Gibson

I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, "How do you know what the future is going to be like?" And I'd always say, "I don't.

Randy Johnson

It was devastating. It's hard for all of us who deal with them day in and day out. They're a big attraction for us. People have been asking where she's at, and it's hard to handle.

James Johnston

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

It was asking a lot of these kids. The pressures were very demanding and we needed something to motivate them to participate.

Charles Fried

It is really a euphemism for asking the man, 'how are you going to decide particular cases that I care about? It is a kind of smoke screen for asking that question.

It's a double whammy. They're not getting enough sleep to recharge their brains, and we're asking their brains to be on duty at the wrong time.

It's a point in the right direction, that's for sure. It's what these people have been asking for. Of course you live in hope, of course you do. But you have to be realistic. I know the Middle East all too well.

It's been about 10 years that we've been fighting for this and that. Seniors have been asking for it.

Olli Jokinen

It's been pretty tough the past two weeks, with everyone asking questions about what's going to happen and not knowing about the future. Now it's time to focus.

Bob Stoops

It's pretty obvious we need to continue to develop and improve our passing game, and to make sure of what we're asking our guys to do, they are capable of doing.

It sounds like job cuts is a piece of it and I think they are looking at whole business units, asking 'Is this efficient'?

Terry Butcher

It's the first party I've been invited to since I've been here. Mind you, some of the players will probably be asking me for new contracts. I'll probably end up giving them after a few glasses of red wine.

Dan Rather

It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions,

It's like asking how do you fly around the moon.

Kevin Sullivan

It's looking at New Gloucester today and how New Gloucester has changed in the last few years. All of this, of course, is a precursor to asking the citizens of New Gloucester what do they want New Gloucester to be in the future?

It's kind of like the guy with a sign on the entrance ramp to the freeway. Would you be more inclined to give him a few bucks if he says he needs it for food or for beer? At least the guy asking for beer is being honest about it.

Steve Johnson

It's kind of like asking what part of flying a plane would you not like your pilot to learn.

It makes me go back and re-evaluate what I'm asking them to get done.

In the interest of 70,000 journalists in our country, I am asking the ruling chancellor to take back his accusations.

intelligent enough to understand that the times are asking for modern policies so that we can be attractive enough to international investment, so that the country can grow, because the government does not have money today to make the country grow.

Insurance underwriters are asking many more diverse questions regarding both individual risks from both a products standpoint and premises liability. And renewals are requiring more and more detail than ever before to support the types of questions they're asking.

Instead of asking which Delaware League teams are tough, you're better off asking which ones aren't tough, because there are a lot of strong teams out there.

Henry Miller

Instead of asking -- ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask -- ''How much good? How much joy?''

I'm trying not to be greedy in my decision making process and I'm asking everyone to cooperate with this.

I'm totally uncomfortable asking my students to fund-raise for my pay, we already fund-raise just for the activities. I can't do it. It's not professional.