Asking Quotes

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.'

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

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.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.