All Quotes

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.
‐‐ Ron Ziegler

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
‐‐ Mary Harris Jones

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
‐‐ Jim Valvano

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.
‐‐ Eric Ries

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.
‐‐ Rachel Perry

I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years.
‐‐ Jamie Lawson

I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.
‐‐ Matt Smith

I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.
‐‐ Marcia Wallace

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
‐‐ Ernestine Rose

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.
‐‐ Stacy Keach

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?
‐‐ Al Roker

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
‐‐ James Joyce

I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
‐‐ Edmund White

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
‐‐ Ace Frehley

I asked my designer friend, Sam Klemick, to make a headdress for me, drawing inspiration from 1920s headpieces, Athena and Joan of Arc. Before each show, I have this quiet meditative moment where I put the headdress on and gather my thoughts and strength.
‐‐ Sydney Wayser

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'
‐‐ Jimmy Piersall

I asked my friend Greg Andersson to introduce me to people that can distribute my album.
‐‐ Josh Homme

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
‐‐ Emo Philips

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
‐‐ Ornette Coleman

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.
‐‐ Luke Scott

I asked myself what it was that I wanted from writing and where my connection with books began, and the answer to that question was definitely in childhood, because that's where my connection with reading began.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.
‐‐ Enos Slaughter

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
‐‐ Harold Ross

I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because it looks like art.' But then again, art doesn't always look like art at first. The way the space shuttle that lifts off doesn't much resemble the space shuttle as it lands.
‐‐ Rene Ricard

I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'
‐‐ Johnny Gimble

I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'
‐‐ Brian Harvey

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours of makeup to play him. That was good enough for me.
‐‐ Geoffrey Rush

I aspire only to silence.
‐‐ Felix Feneon

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.
‐‐ Trevor Donovan

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.
‐‐ Henrique Capriles Radonski

I aspire to be useful.
‐‐ Anthony Foxx

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.
‐‐ Richard King

I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.
‐‐ David Rakoff