Top 100 Asked Quotes
#1. And how he'd asked me to expand on the seamless intercourse between government bodies, they all gasped.
Penny Reid
#2. I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#3. Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
Pat Paulsen
#4. Yet he hadn't asked for anything that he hadn't been willing to give himself. - Mahri
Kathryne Kennedy
#5. Besides inquiries as to our general well-being, the first thing asked about us, in our first seconds of being alive, is whether we're a boy or girl. Our first passport through this world is our genitals.
Steve Erickson
#6. Hey. We good?" Christian asked.
They were all watching me, even the creepy doll head.
So I closed my eyes and said what I said best.
Nothing.
Sarah Ockler
#7. When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.
Evelyn Glennie
#8. Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.
Craig Clevenger
#9. He leaned over to kiss the top of my head, and then groaned. I looked at him, puzzled.
"You smell so good in the rain," he explained.
"In a good way, or in a bad way?" I asked cautiously.
He sighed. "Both, always both.
Stephenie Meyer
#10. Are we talking about sending the FBI or the National Guard to close abortion clinics?" I asked. "We'll see when I get to be president," he answered. Huckabee smiled.
Matt Taibbi
#11. Richard Grieco once asked for a bunch of M&M's
Bill Hader
#12. I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again.
"What happened?" I asked idly.
"I thought ... never mind".She blinked.
Ha,gotcha
Chetan Bhagat
#13. Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht.
"Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.
James Patterson
#14. I was asked if I'd had a chance to spend any time gambling since we'd arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers.
Penny Reid
#15. I had to smile. "How can you not approve of gods when you are one?" He sniffed. "I never asked to be worshipped. Feared, yes." "That's how most religions start. Eddie, the Street is in danger, and so am I.
Simon R. Green
#16. Okay, is it me, or is anyone else having a problem with deciding whether to have a heart attack or an orgasm?" Meems asked.
"Orgasm," Jessie said instantly.
"Yep, same here," Dee put in.
Kristen Ashley
#17. Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning.
"Yes, I think so."
"I think so too.
Evelyn Waugh
#18. He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn't understand him. He often asked, 'Babuji, why aren't you revolted by dirtiness?
Saadat Hasan Manto
#19. Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice.
He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him.
I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.
Charlaine Harris
#20. I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
C.S. Lewis
#21. When he returned to the Iron Man production office, Downey asked that Favreau be sure to place a Tesla Roadster in Tony Stark's workshop.
Ashlee Vance
#22. True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#23. Am I forgiven yet?" he asked, kissing her back. She snorted. "That wasn't you making it up to me. That was you using orgasms to soften me up so I'd more easily forgive you. Sometimes I wonder how you live with yourself." He
Suzanne Wright
#24. Can I brush your hair? she asked as she led the way, her disposition doing a 180 on a dime. Kids. Can't live with 'em. Can't eat 'em for lunch.
Darynda Jones
#25. Did you know - then?" asked Harry.
"Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.
J.K. Rowling
#26. The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!
John F. Kennedy
#27. 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 ignorant licensed murders.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. I remember when my daughter was just learning her letters. She was playing in her room and came downstairs to ask me, "Momma, what does C-H-I-N-A spell?" "China," I told her (she knew what the word meant - she had friends from there). "So," she asked next, "why is it written on everything?
Annie Leonard
#29. And where do you see in all this the influence of the Castle?" asked K. "So far it doesn't seem to have come in. What you've told me about is simply the ordinary senseless fear of the people, malicious pleasure in hurting a neighbor, specious friendship, things that can be found anywhere, ...
Franz Kafka
#30. Does she want me to cum? he thought. This was the frustrating part about vanilla sex. He never got to decide anything, and if he asked any question he would "ruin the moment." So it was all up in the air, never knowing exactly what the fuck was going on.
Joshua Edward Smith
#31. Worried, I touched the jacket's sleeve. "You think it's too much?" I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I'd had this conversation with ex-roommates before.
Kim Harrison
#32. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.
Frederick Weisel
#33. A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym.
Mark Kostabi
#34. The angel brought you back."
"Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for me."
"But I dont want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you.
Cassandra Clare
#35. Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?"
"Especially those." said Joy.
Alethea Kontis
#36. A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all - it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#37. Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?'
'Which general?' he asked with a shy grin.
'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals are reconciled.
Graham Greene
#38. I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.
Jerry Seinfeld
#39. The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger.
Want a private party?" she asked.
Not tonight," Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left.
What about the cat-feeding theory?" I asked him.
Out the window.
Janet Evanovich
#40. What is the modern mind?" asked Grant.
"Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive
and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within.
G.K. Chesterton
#41. I unbuckled my seat belt.
"Are you going to jump onto his car?" Julie asked. "I can get closer."
"What are you, out of your mind? No, I'm not jumping on his car. That only works in movies.
Ilona Andrews
#42. Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into
a hole. "It's you."
"You were expecting someone else?"
I asked. "Am I interrupting your social
calendar?" I made a big show of
glancing around the empty room. "I don't
want to keep you from the mob of fans
beating down your door.
Richelle Mead
#43. Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions - say 10 percent - of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.
Carl Sagan
#44. For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked an inescapable question by an angel with whom I must wrestle to get at the answer.
May Sarton
#45. I'm fine."
"You know how Flynn defines 'fine' as an answer?" Jake asked him conversationally. "He says it usually translates as an anagram: Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional. So which one do you want to go for?
Rolf
#46. One little girl broke up the whole kourtroom when she asked out loud, "Is that the fascist pig, Mommy?" pointing up at the judge.
Assata Shakur
#47. What's their purpose?" I asked as a I stood.
"Children? No idea. It appears to be simply an inconvenient stage between birth and usefulness.
Kelley Armstrong
#48. She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?'
'Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.
Donna Thorland
#49. He held her gaze as he lowered his head toward her. He didn't kiss her though
just leaned kissably close and asked, Will you let me take you in my arms ... for a dance, Leslie?
Melissa Marr
#50. I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.
Helen Thomas
#51. I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said I'll just print another ten.
Eric Sykes
#52. Clearly, his winks were some sort of superpower, because I swear that if he asked me to jump from the roof of a tall building and then winked, I'd jump.
C.P. Smith
#53. If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Edward Hodnett
#54. "Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny."
Janet Morris
#55. What do you feel? I've never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren't supposed to feel. We're British.
Libba Bray
#56. Are you God?" Wyso asked.
"No. He's someone else."
"Are you the Creator?" Danny asked.
"No. She is somewhere else.
Clara Bush
#57. Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me.
I looked at it. "A. GUY."
He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.
Elizabeth Scott
#58. Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham:
"You love to figure out things as much as I do," Piper said.
"Like what?" Bill asked.
"You fix broken stuff," Piper replied.
"Repairing a broken toaster or steam iron is far different than unraveling a murder mystery," Bill said.
Ed Lynskey
#59. She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.
David Bowie
#60. You want to grab something here, Brycin? he asked, bending over again.
Um ... yeah. Your ass.
Stacey Marie Brown
#61. He wondered whether he had done right. He was dissatisfied with himself and with all his circumstances. He asked himself dully whether whenever you got your way you wished afterwards that you hadn't
W. Somerset Maugham
#62. Scott noticed Will staring at it and grinned. "Like what you see?" Woolsey Scott asked. "I do enjoy these surprise midnight declarations. Go along, have at it.
Cassandra Clare
#63. I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?
Moby
#64. Once when asked how I would like to be remembered, I answered, "As someone who opened doors.
Dave Brubeck
#65. You want to know why we're the ones responsible?" Gunny asked.
I looked up into a pair of wise eyes that had seen far more than mine.
"Because there's nobody else," he said.
D.J. MacHale
#66. We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.
Joseph Lowery
#67. Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!
Walter Isaacson
#68. I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.
Joyce Meyer
#69. [Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or a savings account. He then asked a Secret Service agent to hand him his hobo bindle, and he jumped a freight train back to D.C.
Peter Sagal
#70. Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'
Peter Malkin
#71. I slipped my hands down his back and into his boxers. "I hope this gets old soon. I don't see myself ever getting tired of you."
"Promise?" he asked, smiling.
Jamie McGuire
#72. My first goal was to work up enough nerve to ask some of the most ridiculous questions I'd ever asked in my life. Here's how I pictured that conversation going:
Me: Do you know Gavin MacKenzie?
Country person: Who's askin'?
Me: His wife.
Country person: - vacant look - crickets -
Elle Casey
#73. I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.
Lewis Pugh
#74. Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
Maureen O'Hara
#75. "Was it okay?" he asked.
I smiled. "Better than okay."
"So I won my pass to date two?"
"You did."
"Good"
His face lowered toward mine and I knew what was coming. I knew it. But when his lips touched mine, I still jumped.
"S-sorry, I - I"
"Skittish as a cat," he murmured.
Kelley Armstrong
#76. Why do ye care," elf? Athrogate asked him. "I do not know," came Jarlaxle's honest response.
R.A. Salvatore
#77. I like to see a man obeying a woman," Father Pyrlig said as I fetched the loaf.
"Why's that?" I asked.
"Because it means I'm not alone in this sorry world.
Bernard Cornwell
#78. Mom was just teasing when she asked whether I felt safe being left alone in a haunted house. But now I know: once you move into one, you're never really alone again.
Paige McKenzie
#79. You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.
Julia Cameron
#80. It's rare for me to be asked out and for me to respond in a positive way is rarer still. I'm the worst - a man has to be just right for me.
Cheryl Cole
#81. As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.
Lennox Morrison
#82. No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens ... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
Guy Debord
#83. What is all this talk of elephants and seals?' asked Frog. 'It's nonsense', said the father, 'and yet it's not the child's fault. Our motor is in me. He fills the empty space inside himself with foolish dreams that cannot possibly come true'.
Russell Hoban
#84. What can I do?" Klaus asked.
"You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.
Lemony Snicket
#85. I see. Certainly. It would be nice to put his name on the buns with pink sugar, wouldn't it?" "Perks," said Peter, "it's not a pretty name." "His other name's Albert," said Phyllis; "I asked him once." "We might put A. P.," said Mother; "I'll show you how when the day comes." This
E. Nesbit
#86. The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.
Lou Rawls
#87. A kid asked me for advise about getting into entertainment? I said you better know how to be happy being broke!
Donnell Rawlings
#88. How did you know," Summer would demand, and then decide: "It's probably a coincidence."
"It's not a coincidence," Bird would say. "It's just obvious. Your body just knows."
"But how do you know?"
"How do you know a story is a good story or not?" asked Bird. "Like that. you know like that.
Katherine Catmull
#89. So what will you do, m'lord, now that you're the Hand of the King?" Shae asked him as he cupped that warm sweet flesh. "Something Cersei will never expect," Tyrion murmured softly against her slender neck. "I'll do ... justice.
George R R Martin
#90. But why Alaska?' I asked her.
'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.
John Green
#91. Do you like my name? he asked.
"yes, I do," I replied.
"Good, because one day soon, I want to give it to you.
Jenna Roads
#92. Next steps?" I asked, turning him back to business once again. "A stiff drink?" "Have I finally driven you to alcohol, Sentinel?
Chloe Neill
#93. Are you an accountant?" she asked.
"Why? Are you calling me boring?
Kim Dallmeier
#94. His sister's beautiful,
He has his father's eyes,
But if you asked me if I love him
I'd Lie
Taylor Swift
#95. When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, "When did you start feeling like a grownup?" His response: "Never.
Shannon Celebi
#96. Vetinari drummed his fingers on the table. "What would you do if I asked you an outright question, Vimes?" "I'd tell you a downright lie, sir." "Then I will not do so," said Vetinari, smiling faintly.
Terry Pratchett
#97. Why are you asking me now?" I asked. "Why didn't you ask me before?"
"You seemed a little ... unstable," Mayson said. "Now you seem to be more like yourself ... which is still ... rather unstable.
L.D. Davis
#99. You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor?" Lestrade asked. "Evidently." "Why do that?" "Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape the data to match my wishes." And
Laurie R. King
#100. But why do we say nothing?" Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. "Why do we always say nothing?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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