Asking Quotes

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.

It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.

This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?

The player may experiment about with his swing, his grip, his stance. It is only when he begins asking his caddie's advice that he is getting on dangerous ground.

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

I see a lot of that on Tumblr - people asking advice from people they don't know. That's so odd to me. Asking an anonymous person for advice seems very odd.

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

His energy is very malevolent. Don't get sick or I'll start asking you if the baby is all right in front of him.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

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

Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'

Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?'

If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.

Always think twice before asking anything of anyone that ends in the words, on your face.

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

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.'

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.

The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I got.

Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered.

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!"

How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'