Quotes with asked

  • When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
  • If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.
  • But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
  • It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
  • And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
  • When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
  • Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
  • If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
  • Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
  • Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Abbott ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    Source: The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Robert Frost Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Walter Cronkite I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Junot Diaz I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
    Source: Wildwood
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler 'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ronnie Corbett A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
    Ronnie Corbett
    Scottish comedian (1930 - 2016)
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  • Ben Jonson A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
    Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
    Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.
    Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Mickey Rooney A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 short.
    Mickey Rooney
    American actor, vaudevillian, comedian and producer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • George E. Mueller A young girl was asked: ''Whose preaching brought you to Christ?'' ''It wasn't anybody's preaching; it was Aunt Mary's practicing,'' he replied. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Martin Luther All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Ogden Nash And one of his partners asked ''Has he vertigo?'' and the other glanced out and down and said ''Oh no, only about ten feet more.''
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Beatrice Wood And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Barbara Mandrell And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • A. S. Byatt And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
    Source: Possession (1990) Page 223
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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