I Asked Quotes
870 I Asked quotes by 564 unique authors
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Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
— Louisa May Alcott
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I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into it. I didn't…
— Sophie Anderton
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It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi,…
— Norma McCorvey
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What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The…
— Bill Veeck
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When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you…
— Sakyong Mipham
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When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.
— Mike Royko
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Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could do. I managed…
— William Walton
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Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union…
— Mike Rounds
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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly…
— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and seeking that some…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted…
— Herbie Mann
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I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do…
— Conor Oberst
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All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many…
— Dean Koontz
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I…
— Russell M. Nelson
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I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.
— Phyllis Diller
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Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of…
— John Wooden
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My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
— Michael Eisner
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