I Asked Quotes
870 I Asked quotes by 564 unique authors
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said,…
— Jim Valvano
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I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.
— Jesse Ventura
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
— Mae West
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Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes,"…
— Isak Dinesen
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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I…
— Oscar Wilde
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
— Langston Hughes
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She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked. “Yeah.” “When?” “Right away.” “How?” I persisted. “We look identical. She even had identical…
— James Patterson
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Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?'…
— Elie Wiesel
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I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.
— Albert Einstein
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I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending…
— Jeannette Walls
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Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I…
— Jennifer Weiner
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She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and…
— W S Merwin
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A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,…
— Sherwood Smith
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It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a…
— Betty Smith
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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open…
— Sarah Dessen
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When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
— Pablo Neruda
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Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves…
— Rick Riordan
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I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad…
— Shel Silverstein
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I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
— Frank McCourt
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