Famous Quotes & Sayings

Underwriting has slipped. If you look at FICO (credit) scores, many loans today are made with sub-prime FICO (credit) scores, ... We are just asking for trouble.

When she got quiet, I kept asking her questions,

Everywhere we go, people are shouting at us, asking us for our autographs. Honestly, I feel like a celebrity right now.

The reality of retail is that the busiest times are evenings and weekends in this market. We're trying to develop an optimal schedule that would best serve our customers. In order to ensure there are appropriate number of employees to serve those customers, we're asking associates that work daytime schedules to be more flexible.

Debi Mazar

I married a Florentine. We bought a house, had a family, and after a decade in our little Hollywood nest, we said, 'Let's go to Tuscany.' Tell God you can't make him laugh, but the next thing I know, my cooking show has become a hit, and they're asking for more seasons, and they want it to be in the States.

Al Franken

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

Diane Paulus

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.

Chellie Pingree

As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with over a million signatures asking that Net Neutrality be made law.

Enrico Caruso

I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny.

Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.

We believe that what they are asking for is way too much and unfair.

We offered a range of services. Some people needed food, and many disabled residents and seniors were asking for assistance. We set up telephones for public use, set up computers so residents could send e-mails, provided information on available housing, and helped file applications to FEMA for assistance.

While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.

Who would have thought that in Day 12 of a disaster, we'd still be asking ourselves these questions? Usually at this point, we're well into the rebuilding.

Rose McIver

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

Shekhar Kapur

My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him.

Jimmy Carr

fans have been writing in asking why the show hasn't made a return. Bosses felt it was the right time.

Fans have been asking us for years about encore presentations of our games.

Alan Curtis

But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth straight year of increasing poverty, following a seven-year decline, from 1993 to 2000. Shouldn't wise journalists be asking why?

But maybe those are the kinds of decisions that need to be pushed down and made at a lower level, anyway. The danger is that people get too wrapped up in the technology and cool features and lose sight of what customers are asking for. Sometimes business customers want the boring stuff.

Amy Sedaris

Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Paloma Picasso

Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.

The governor hopes the report he is asking for now will provide a basis for jump-starting that system of reporting.

The governor has expressed, fairly consistently, some sentiments about wanting this measure resolved in the courts. We are asking him to re-look at this based on the legislature's vote and the most recent polls.

Becky Anderson

We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right now, we've sent letters out to people asking for $1,000 donations to pay off the buildings. While trying to pay off the building, we've also been raising money to renovate the marquee. ... I'm hoping people will respond to the letters that we sent and at least send some money.

We see reporters that we have never seen before. This is national news now. They're all asking the same question.

We're thinking of it as business as usual. We're helping our travelers get through it. Some are asking if they should cancel. We're recommending that they don't.

Marc Andreessen

We're technically agnostic. Our services support Sun and Oracle, but a lot of customers have been asking that we support Microsoft as well.

We've been like that all season. They're starting to have the vision I've been asking them to have for a while. Our settled, normal offense stuff, we need to work on that.

James Baker

The Gore campaign is asking for a third recount here. We can go into Wisconsin, we can go into Iowa and start recounting,