Asking Quotes

When I stop asking questions, something's wrong.

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

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.

I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

If America is truly Israels greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.

My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

Does my hair look alright? Of course, it looks alright. Why am I asking you for? ...We get lunch right? ...Can we get this thing going? I gotta meet my girlfriend for a martini.

When it comes to asking for raise, you just have to do it in the right way. You may get a no, and that's fine, but ask and make sure you know when you can come back and ask again.

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

I think my mom gets weirded out, sometimes, by people knowing so much about me or people always asking questions.

It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves." Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

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.

Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

Hanks' ideology first came into our zone shortly after 9/11, when he criticized me for asking Hollywood telethon stars to become more aggressive in getting the money to 9/11 families.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."