I Asked Quotes
870 I Asked quotes by 564 unique authors
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I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says,…
— Emo Philips
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I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out.…
— Eric Ries
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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've…
— Richard Russo
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I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He…
— Jane Smiley
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I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And…
— Tim Tebow
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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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