Askes Quotes

#1. When a friend askes, there is no to morrow.
[When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]

George Herbert

#2. I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!

Lee Evans

#3. To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

George Herbert

#4. Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.

George Herbert

#5. The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.

George Herbert

#6. I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.

Matt Mickiewicz

#7. If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.

Carl Hart

#8. I just don't like to talk about the past.

Jochen Zeitz

#9. But every period has its virtues, even a time of turmoil. . . . When

Amor Towles

#10. When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

Bob Dylan

#11. NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'

John Maeda

#13. Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Karl Marx

#14. My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

Lorna Luft

#15. Knowledge is not which is memorise, Knowledge is that which benefits.

Ash Shafai

#16. He was blessed with the ability to admire the unlovely. Or, I should say, he was blessed with the inability to feel there is a difference between lovely and un-.

Alexandra Horowitz

#17. Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.

George Eliot

#18. It's strange, isn't it? You go on and on, or I do rather, seeing God knows what horrors and learning not to care or anyway not to care more than you need to do the job, and then something happens that gets right under your skin.

Pat Barker

#19. She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.

Alexander McCall Smith