I Asked Quotes

#1. What do you think?" I asked. "Is it too much?" Finn tilted his head and gave me a critical once-over. "You're dressed up as an ice queen dominatrix. I don't think there is such a thing as too much.

Jennifer Estep

#2. Smitty gave his best pout. "Why are y'all trying to hurt me?"
"Because it's fun?"
"It's easy."
"I love it when you cry."
Smitty sighed. "Forget I asked.

Shelly Laurenston

#3. The afterlife looks different to every soul," he said, "depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe."
"And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" i asked.
Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.

Rick Riordan

#4. What happened to Tomas Mandray?" I asked, the words strangled.
"I realized he wouldn't have gone with me to save you from Prythian.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study?" I asked. "It was completely deliberate on my part," he replied. "I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I thought I was doing something good at the time.

Jon Ronson

#6. I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.

Henny Youngman

#7. I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

Tom Coburn

#8. In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#9. If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:
'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.

Javier Cercas

#11. I just gravitated toward (working behind the scenes by) growing up on the different sets and watching my father and other people in their different capacities ... When I was 13 years old, I asked for a Super 8 camera.

Michael Landon Jr.

#12. How do I stack up?" I asked. "Against what?" He stared at the ceiling. "Your bike." "Not even in the same league, darlin'. Your pipes rumble so loud, Harleys should just play you on speakers.

Paige Notaro

#13. You die, I die too." Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. "I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.

Veronica Roth

#14. Do you only think you love me? Are you pretty sure you love me? Or are you absolutely positive?" I asked. "Because it's kind of an important distinction."
"I think I'm pretty positive I love you." He grinned down at me.

Ripley Patton

#15. Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

Joseph Delaney

#16. Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" I asked him that evening.
"Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common."
"'s what everybody at school says."
"From now on it'll be everybody less one
"
"Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, why do you send me to school?

Harper Lee

#17. And if I asked for the moon on a string?" - Sorsha

Sarah J. Maas

#18. Julita was being spinned like a top by a drop-dead-gorgeous Dominicano. Later she told us that he'd asked for her number and she had given him the wrong one.
"Why did you do that?" I asked her.
"He smelled married," she said.

Isabel Lopez

#19. What are you afraid of?' I asked.
'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#20. I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

Randy Moss

#21. Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

Sylvester Stallone

#22. You okay?" I asked Rosie and Rosie gave me an "are you nuts, that lunatic just tied me up with duct tape" look.

Kristen Ashley

#23. How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked.
'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.

Adrian McKinty

#24. 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, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

Norma McCorvey

#25. Here I've given him a good eight inches and a shot at immortality and he'll turn on me the same way he did last year when I asked him to pose for a few nude sketches. Ingrate

David Sedaris

#26. My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did not
know, a shape filled with rain. Whenever I asked, she'd say, 'You
had no father. I'm your father. You sprang full-blown from my
forehead, like Athena.

Janet Fitch

#27. Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway.
'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.
'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully.
'Huh?' said Lester.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#28. Portia and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in those 4 years, I don't think we hurt anyone else's marriage. I asked all of my neighbors and they say they're fine

Ellen DeGeneres

#29. -Do you love this girl ?
-I'm fucking crazy about her.
-Fucking crazy I've gathered. But I asked if you love her. I'm talking true, enduring, unconditional, hold-her-hair-while-she's-pucking-from-the-morning-sickness love.

Cherrie Lynn

#30. Once, when I was little, I asked her if she'd cried when my father had fallen to his death.
At the funeral? I mean, the burial?
No, I did not.
Because you weren't sad?
Because it was nobody's business if I was.

Khaled Hosseini

#31. I knew instantly that I wanted that type of love in my life. To have someone I could take care of in every sense and who would trust me to do so. No matter what I asked of them.

Breanna Hayse

#32. Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes "enslaved African" sound nonchalant. As in "Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns.

Sarah Vowell

#33. You're here," he said simply.
"Do I know you?" I asked, which came out more haughtily than I had intended.
"You will," he answered, kicking off the tree and walking toward me. "After all, you're wearing my locket. And I've been waiting for you.

Delilah S. Dawson

#34. As i was beginning to understand, this kind of love was foreign ground to him. I may add that he never did, as far as I know, accept a suitor ... Sometimes indeed I asked myself whether he lacked the capacity for loving men at all; but I liked him too well to offend him by such a question.

Mary Renault

#35. No. This has to do with drugs."
My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?"
She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are."
"I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.

Darynda Jones

#36. I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

Leo Tolstoy

#37. My mom would never ride an ATV,' he said. 'But you did.'

'Is that a good thing?' I asked.

He traced my lips with his fingertip. 'Yes.'

My body melted like a candy bar on the dashboard.

Sandra Byrd

#38. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it. NIKOLA TESLA1

Marc Seifer

#39. Oh, yeah, I did the online dating thing. I did Nerve, I did Match. On Nerve there was this one guy who, when I asked him what he did for a living, said he 'used to be in a band.' I was like, 'That is not an occupation.'

Julie Klausner

#40. I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'

Mickey Rourke

#41. When I asked her what she'd thought of Pride and Prejudice, she only wondered aloud how anyone could have written a novel set in the first part of the nineteenth century without once mentioning Napoleon.

Michelle Cooper

#42. You really do think you're the cat's pajamas, don't you? I asked Raphael, annoyed with his arrogance.

Katie MacAlister

#43. I came out of the mall one day, and a guy was standing there with a coat hanger in his window, and I couldn't stop myself. I asked the stupid question. 'You lock your keys in the car?' 'Nope, just washed it, gonna hang it up to dry.'

Bill Engvall

#44. I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

Luke Scott

#45. And when I asked you how you'd been, I meant I missed you more than I've ever missed anything before.

Iain Thomas

#46. He pointed to a chair opposite him. "Sit." Another sip. "I'm hiding from commitment."
"Who's evil enough to name a girl that?" I asked, and sat down.

Isabelle Crusoe

#47. Why didn't you come see me yesterday?" I asked.

Renee Pawlish

#48. She continued, "You know, we never use that word. Aspies. We don't want them thinking it's some sort of club." More negative implications from someone who was presumably paid to assist and encourage.
"Like homosexuality?" I asked.
"Touche," said Julie.

Graeme Simsion

#49. I have confidence that my prayers are answered because I sought God's will before I asked.

Davin Whitehurst

#50. Lucky Charms?" I asked.
"Magically delicious," he explained. "Requisite for any sort of building project."
I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. "This isn't a date."
He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I'd bring Count Chocula for that.

Richelle Mead

#51. I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.

Alan Dershowitz

#52. I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#53. It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

Antonio Porchia

#54. You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.
I loved being the supporting character,
because I felt it was my way of supporting you.
I asked for nothing in return
and wanted so much.

David Levithan

#55. When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can.

Anne Lamott

#56. Republicans like Fox News and NASCAR and Democrats like MSNBC and Starbucks." "Simple as that?" I asked, and he said, "Absolutely.

Jennifer Close

#57. My opinion has changed."
"About what?" I asked, as my lips teased his.
"About the ocean and the moon ... they both crave each other," he spoke, breathing out one last breath as he took control of my lips.

Nicole Gulla

#58. Why would you do that?" I asked as he gasped. "Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?" I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit.

Mark Lawrence

#59. Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?"
He smiled at me. "Go to sleep."
I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?"
His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd ... do anything.

Patricia Briggs

#60. Everyone got behind Fox, the name the guys had dubbed the red truck.

"Fox?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah," Isaac said with a grin. "Our truck is hot, like Megan Fox.

Ali Novak

#61. And then she leaned back her head with the faintest smile and, tapping her chin, asked, Are you in love with him, this mystery composer? How can I be? I asked in return. I don't even know him. Almost every opera is about this, she said, her smile growing. Love before first sight.

Alexander Chee

#62. I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK' ... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

Brea Grant

#63. Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked.
My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile.
Really, a smile.
'Not in a million years,' he said.

Gary D. Schmidt

#64. Don't call me that." She looked down.
I tipped her face back up. "What?"
"Baby."
Shit. I called her baby?
"Why not?" I asked. I was supposed to tell her she'd been hearing things. That grief was making her cuckoo.
"Because I like it.

Cambria Hebert

#65. Greyson is gone."
A high-pitched ringing started in my ears.
"Dead?" I asked, not at all ashamed at the tiny bit of hope that leaked into my voice.
"No. Escaped. He'll be hunting you."
With that as the option, I liked dead better.

Devon Monk

#66. The GP appeared in its typical V formation. "Goose on the lawn," Luc said. "Goose?" I asked. "That V formation. I like to use derogatory terms to describe the GP whenever possible.

Chloe Neill

#67. Oh, man. You're him. The cute and brooding vampire boyfriend."
"She said I was cute and brooding?" I asked. "Never mind. Why can't I reach her? Where is she?

Richelle Mead

#68. Where the hell did my bones go? I asked. This whole upright thing had me stumped.

Darynda Jones

#69. I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be
a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii, or sweating on the elliptical in Boesel's Green Microgym
I asked myself, Where is the calculus in this experience?

Jennifer Ouellette

#70. I asked my staff why they weren't doing anything differently, and then it became clear: because I wasn't doing anything differently. I was still the lone ranger.

Dave Logan

#71. I was 22 years old when I asked Christ to come into my heart. You cannot be born a Christian; you can only be converted. And that is by putting your faith and trust in Christ.

Franklin Graham

#72. My appearance was cringe-worthy. If I asked the mirror who it considered to be the fairest of them all, it'd reply with, "Damn girl, it ain't you. You're a hot mess.

R.S. Grey

#73. What are you thinking?" I asked.
"That we should've been doing this a long time ago.

Richelle Mead

#74. That's not what I asked," she said, a noticeable edge in her voice. "I asked why my father shot him."
He sighed. She could have found gainful employment with the Spanish Inquisition, he thought
ruefully; no chance of escape or evasion.

Diana Gabaldon

#75. What are you planning?" I asked, as we turned toward the grand ballroom.
"Just a small demonstration for the public good," he said. "I am so sorry."
"You're apologizing in advance."
"Yes."
Never a good sign.

Ilona Andrews

#76. I asked for nothing from Theresa [May]. She asked for nothing from me. That's not the way we work.

Stephen Crabb

#77. Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?

Sarah Dessen

#78. Don't you ever worry about the future?" I asked. Jack shrugged. "This is the future," he said.

Jonathan Tropper

#79. Now, how did you know that I was going to propose?" I asked in genuine wonder. "Don't women always know? Do you suppose any woman in the world was ever taken unawares?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#80. I ASKED no other thing,
No other was denied.
I offered Being for it;
The mighty merchant smiled.
Brazil? He twirled a button,
Without a glance my way:
But, madam, is there nothing else
That we can show to-day?

Emily Dickinson

#81. I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.

Phyllis Diller

#82. I dropped the bug with a shudder. 'Is that why Mab wants me?' I asked Ash, who still stood a few feet away. 'As a weapon?'
'Ridiculous isn't it?' Grimalkin purred. 'She cannot even use glamour. She would be a horrible assassin.

Julie Kagawa

#83. But don't let them talk you into anything you don't feel comfortable with."
"They're my friends."
"So what?" He shrugged. "If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?"
"Why would they walk off a cliff?" I asked in alarm. "Is someone having problems at home?

Alexandra Adornetto

#84. When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.

Elmer Rice

#85. Are you mine?" I asked as I wiped my tears.
He kissed the corners of my mouth softly, and I felt heat rise up my neck. "Always have been,"
he whispered against my mouth.

Penelope Douglas

#86. When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

Maeve Binchy

#87. After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#88. I remembered seeing a media channel where they showed picture after picture of food items I had never seen before in my life. When I asked my father what it was, he said they called it the "Two Minutes' Hate.

Project Itoh

#89. I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Albert Einstein

#90. What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.

Hillary Clinton

#91. But when I asked where the extra doors led,Ruby smiled and said sometimes you need more than oneway to reach the outside ...

Nova Ren Suma

#92. I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a ball since last season and I asked him if he'd been training.

Harry Redknapp

#93. When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again."
"Are you going to kiss the sand?" I asked.
"Don't be ridiculous."
"Now I'M the one being silly?"
"Yes.

Maria V. Snyder

#94. family?" I asked. "If the DA will agree," Phil said. "Has this ever been done before?" I asked. They both shook their heads and laughed. "They are running an illegal scheme in which they are killing people for profit and to silence them. Sounds like wiseguys to me," Izzy concluded. The

Kieran Crowley

#95. Bagged her? What does that even mean?" I asked, already wishing I hadn't. "Intimate relations. Intercourse. Coitus. Doing the deed. Nookie. Fornicating. Laying pipe. Screwing. Sex. Tapping that ass. Fucking. Need I go on?

Jamie McGuire

#96. I walked over to Osten, who looked like he was itching to climb on something.
"What are you up to today?" I asked.
"I don't know."
"Go find the Selected guys and ask them awkward questions. Report back."
He laughed and went running.
"Where's he off to?" Dad asked quietly.
"Nowhere.

Kiera Cass

#97. I shifted in my chair as Dad waited for a response. He seemed determined, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possibly Milk Duds.
"Are you psychotic?" I asked, realizing my plan to charm and bribe him if need be flew out the window the minute I opened my mouth.

Darynda Jones

#98. Man or woman?" I asked. "Oh, man, of course. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#99. I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

Bernhard Schlink

#100. You put the seat down to piss, don't you?" I asked, grinning.
"Nah. Don't like getting my dick wet.

Christina Lauren