Top 100 Ask Me Sayings
#1. Don't ask me to treat you like some woman who didn't mean anything to me, because you aren't and I can't.
Mira Lyn Kelly
#2. Noah, why did you ask me here tonight?" ...
His eyes stayed focused on the ground as he whispered, "I miss you.
Alison G. Bailey
#3. Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might just ask me the same question.
Abdu'l- Baha
#4. Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
Bobby Jindal
#5. Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?
Yao Ming
#6. I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.
Michael Jackson
#7. Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
Gabriel Mann
#8. You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
George Armstrong Custer
#9. Aren't you affected by Simon's magic?"...
"Took you this long to ask me that?"
She clucks her tongue. "You're not the brightest flame in the fire, are you?"
"Don't make me hit you in a library.
Sara Raasch
#10. People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'
Dutch Ruppersberger
#11. I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
Oliver North
#12. If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
Peter Sellers
#13. Of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your sleep tonight. And you too, Abdullah.
Khaled Hosseini
#14. Ye have ta ask me dat? Ye do na know dat ye are all dat madders ta me?
Amy A. Bartol
#15. My beautiful, my Isobel. My Love. You ask me to wait. And so I wait.
For all of this, I know, is but a dream.
And when, in sleep, at last we wake,
I will see you again.
Kelly Creagh
#16. It's no secret that this is the only place I've ever wanted to work. When people ask me where I went to school, I tell them WWE University.
Josh Mathews
#17. I wear lots of Junk de Luxe sweaters, Cult of Individuality jeans - which are about the best for me - and Fiorentini + Baker boots. With fashion I'm good on jeans and boots. Ask me about anything else, and I'll just look at you doe-eyed and not understand what you're talking about.
Stephen Moyer
#18. A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#19. Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#20. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.
Wovoka
#21. Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.
Molly Ringwald
#22. People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
Blake Mycoskie
#23. I'll do whatever you ask me to. So long as I can be with you. I will do anything.
Shoko Hidaka
#24. Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.
Larry Norman
#25. Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
George Bernard Shaw
#26. Wounded
A bruise is tender
but does not last,
it leaves me as
I always was.
But a wound I take
much more to heart,
for a scar will always
leave its mark.
And if you should ask me
which you are,
my answer is -
you are a scar.
Lang Leav
#27. People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
George Burns
#28. People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.
Miuccia Prada
#29. My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
Joseph Barbera
#30. People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
David Mamet
#31. When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'
Johnny Cash
#32. How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.
Sara Sheridan
#33. Then why did you ask me?' it screamed.
'I just wanted something to talk to,' said Marvin.
Douglas Adams
#34. Although I may not know a lot about football, I do know a lot about food! As a result, not many people ask me to join their fantasy leagues, but they will come to me for suggestions on what to serve for guests for a weekly Sunday get-together.
Marcus Samuelsson
#35. Often, the teachers would ask me what language we spoke at home. This was a not-so-subtle way of discovering if we spoke Yiddish (which we didn't) and were therefore Jewish (which we were).
Edith Hahn Beer
#36. People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.
Emile Hirsch
#37. It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.
Paul Bowles
#38. Would come to me and ask me how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something.
Marilynne Robinson
#39. Just ask me to show you, and I will. I may be a virgin, a first time lover, but every second I can't do what burns in me to do, is an eternal fucking torment. ~Ruin
Lucian Bane
#40. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.
Jodi Picoult
#41. You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Victor Hugo
#42. I mean you ask me
not to fall in love with you
and then you go write poems
with your tongue
and draw constellations
in my freckles.
Clementine Von Radics
#43. When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.
David Ulevitch
#44. The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home
will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.
Marguerite Duras
#45. I hate when people ask me to: "Massage the data".
Ronald Coase
#46. I understand why it's hard to pin me down because I really relate to so many things. Like, for example, when people ask me what's my favorite music, I can't tell them. I love everything.
Lindsay Pearce
#47. You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.
Neil Gaiman
#48. I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.
Seth Rogen
#49. Just dying till the day you ask me to be your Crank bride.
James Dashner
#50. It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.
Gwen Ifill
#51. Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'
George W. Bush
#52. I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
Beth Ditto
#53. How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.
Ricky Ponting
#54. Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
Gloria Steinem
#55. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT ...
Terry Pratchett
#56. People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
Magda Apanowicz
#57. Earlier, when I'm at my prettiest, I almost have to force myself on you. Now, while I'm covered in grime, you insist on kissing me. I suppose if I fall into the pigpen and come up covered in muck, you'll ask me to marry you.
Kevin Hardman
#58. When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."
Joseph J. Romm
#59. If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
Bill Owens
#60. Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'
Noureen DeWulf
#61. If you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.
Noam Chomsky
#62. People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!
Jamie Dornan
#63. If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.
Rachel Caine
#64. Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.
Lois Lowry
#65. Are you going to rape me?" "No. Not until you ask me to." Then
Skye Warren
#66. If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
Brian McDermott
#67. Frankly though, bud, your criteria for what constitutes a good date is kinda skewed, if you ask me. Homemade cookies are overrated man
trust me on this. You can find a decent bakery just about anywhere you go.
Susan Andersen
#68. If you put 20 cents in me and ask me to talk about South Sydney, I'll play all night.
Russell Crowe
#69. The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.
McKayla Maroney
#70. I'll stay until you ask me to leave." Holy
Amy Queau
#71. You ask me to write you a poem,
I pen you an empty ocean,
You run away.
You ask me who I am,
I paint you a breaking sky,
You weep in the rain.
Jenim Dibie
#72. It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and ask me about hitting. I try to help them out as much as I can in the 30 seconds before the pitcher throws the next pitch. That's me. I don't think I will ever change that.
Albert Pujols
#73. But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
Aimee Bender
#74. People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.
Kim Harrison
#75. A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.
Gong Li
#76. People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.
Jose Saramago
#77. You don't have the right to make that call, not after all this time. I can barely breathe when you're near me, but I'll surely suffocate if I have to lose you. How can you ask me to do that?" She turned her face away. "I'm stronger than you think." She looked back at him. "And I'll do my own fixing.
Madison Thorne Grey
#78. You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
Oscar Wilde
#79. You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something - I am God.
Alec Baldwin
#80. If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
Bob Marley
#81. If you were to ask me what I couldn't do without, it would be sashimi.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#82. People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
Carine Roitfeld
#83. You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P.L. Travers
#84. There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
Otis Blackwell
#85. When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
Mitch Daniels
#87. I blinked and tried to focus on what he had just said. My heart slowed abruptly. Apparently he hadn't pulled me aside to ask me to be his one true love.
Inara Scott
#88. After you've taken so much trouble to set up recorder, you ask me now?
E.L. James
#89. People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
Ellen DeGeneres
#90. If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
Thomas Brooks
#91. I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
Sam Raimi
#92. The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're - pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true - ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.
Neil Gaiman
#93. You okay to mount?" he asked Ty.
"Next time you ask me that, you better be naked.
Abigail Roux
#94. She is my hesitation when people ask me if I have a sister.
Kristina Haynes
#95. He leaned down and his breath feathered across her forehead, then down to her ear where he spoke in a coaxing voice. I can make you talk, baby. Is that what you want? If you need my hand between your legs, all you have to do is ask me.
Tessa Bailey
#96. If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products.
Barbara Kingsolver
#97. People ask me whether I'd like another child, and it is difficult to answer, as I am so happy with the two I have.
Louise Nurding
#98. It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
Al Franken
#99. if you ask me, the best way to go about flying is to cut the strings tying you down
Renee Ahdieh
#100. Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing,
I Just Might Tell You the Truth
Bob Dylan
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