Ask Quotes

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

For your information, I would like to ask a question.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

We ask to be recognized as men.

Ask the young. They know everything.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.