Request A Quotes

#1. I always request a king-size bed, and if I can't, I try to work that out right after I land. I unpack immediately so the clothes don't get wrinkled. I go the gym. I adjust the temperature; I like the room kind of warm. And then turn on CNBC.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#2. How cool is it to go into your own backyard, talk directly to the spirit of your own loved one and request a response from them in the form of a spirit photograph.

Robyn L. Reynolds

#3. FUCK. This is not good. I'm allergic to whiskey. I think maybe I should explain this to her, and request a different alcohol. Then I remember that I am awesome. Even fighting through anaphylactic shock, I can STILL bury this emotionally unstable, bulimic undergrad.

Tucker Max

#4. If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Henry A. Kissinger

#5. If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.

Tom Brown Jr.

#6. I am really high maintenance and won't walk through the microwave that fries your body. I always request a pat down [in airport].

Michelle Visage

#7. Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.

Andrew Jackson

#8. May I request a new uniform? A towel seems inappropriate for the position.

Marissa Meyer

#9. I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me "smoking can cause fatal lung cancer".

Robert Clark

#10. The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Kenneth Blackwell

#11. So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Justin Long

#12. I can see that you're in need of an accomplice," Thorne said, straightening his jumpsuit. "And lucky for you, I happen to be a criminal mastermind."
She glowered at him. "Go away."
"That's a difficult request in this situation.

Marissa Meyer

#13. The proper request of love is that our entire life should be oriented to the imitation of the Beloved. Let us therefore spare no effort to leave a transparent trace of God's love in our life.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. I think what we're going to hear is that we didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi. And the request for more security personnel went unheeded, unanswered, and consequently, you know, you have the death of four Americans.

Jason Chaffetz

#15. An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

Bo Bennett

#16. Someone said to me ... 'A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don't you just make the request? Why don't you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?'

Diane Sawyer

#17. I picked up a transsexual hooker named Thor, all six feet of her, at the off ramp to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as I was driving up north to kill a man.

J.A. Konrath

#18. She then turned to Poseidon & with a large smile, asked him to undress her.Taken aback by such an unusual request, the young man baulked.She then begged him to undress her saying that the customers were now waiting to see her show.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

#19. To Szeth's people, a dying request was sacred.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. Texaco's chairman, the Hitler-admiring Torkild Rieber, was using the company's tankers to smuggle oil to the rebels in defiance of a specific request from President Roosevelt.

Ken Follett

#21. Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking? - A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?

Karl Schroeder

#22. Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his
request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#23. Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

Hermann Hesse

#24. I'll send you a friend request."
"You do that, sonny. I'm on the Internet every last Friday in the month, from eleven to three.

Nina George

#25. If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef, only to request that the company issue a recall.

Barbara Kingsolver

#26. The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#27. Companies from which I have purchased items are more than welcome to call me with a sale or discount. If I request information on your Web site, please call me. If I don't want your wares, calling me 15 times in a week will not change that.

Julie Ann Dawson

#28. Many of us feel compelled to agree to every request, and would rather juggle a million jobs than refuse to help even if we are left with no time for ourselves.

Auliq Ice

#29. [W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.

Countee Cullen

#30. I never meant to hurt you, Isabel. Had I known what I would find when I came north, I would never have agreed to Leighton's request ... That is a lie. Had I known that I would find you when I came north, I would have come years ago.

Sarah MacLean

#31. Now that I have confirmed that the Vikings have been seeking to trade me, I have asked for permission to speak to the interested teams. The Vikings have denied my request. If a trade does not happen, then I am asking the Vikings to terminate my contract as soon as possible.

Daunte Culpepper

#32. Why would someone request that their toenails be painted at a podiatrist's? Hot pink, even. We are not a salon. When I told the guy that, he got really irate and left.

Lindy Zart

#33. The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#34. Comen out, leetle rodents," the human called in a language that the companions could not understand. The wizard reiterated the request in another tongue, then in drow, and then in two more unknown tongues, and then in svirfneblin. He continued on for many minutes,

R.A. Salvatore

#35. Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

Aaron Klein

#36. Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

Lucy Liu

#37. I was asked to design the tuxedo for Mr. Peanut. They're rebranding him. That was probably the most interesting request. I didn't spend a long time considering it.

Thom Browne

#38. I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Hamid Karzai

#39. And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

Fred Thompson

#40. You will not have that for which you ask, nor can you have anything you want. This is because your very request is a statement of lack, and your saying you want a thing only works to produce that precise experience - wanting - in your reality.

Neale Donald Walsch

#41. A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

Mignon G. Eberhart

#42. It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

John Calvin

#43. Normally I give permission to take my daughter for a walk after only the building of a wall and a stone pathway.' He smiled. 'For future reference.'
'But, Pan, I knew after the first week that a walk was not the only thing I would request,' the Pigeon said, smiling, 'and winter will be here soon.

Brigid Pasulka

#44. All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'

Gayle King

#45. Simply put, mind power is placing a request, or a wish, if you will, and trusting that somehow it will come to be.

Stephen Richards

#46. I'm not sure I'd like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be both environmentally friendly and a lovely treat for the larger carnivores. Could you request that?

Gail Honeyman

#47. I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well.)

Lois Lowry

#48. A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Percy Ross

#49. (...) cause after a request like that there's always a next time, wether you say yes or no.

Margaret Atwood

#50. If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine Of Hippo

#51. "Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

David Mamet

#52. Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

Mike Beebe

#53. A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it.

Jane Austen

#54. God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. "Thy will be done" is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#55. With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

Edan Lepucki

#56. That men will perish and women will rule the earth?" Hannah replied. "Sorry, wrong number. For that request, you'll need to ring the department in charge of flying pigs. Do you want me to transfer you? I think they're busy at the moment working on a snowstorm in hell.

Dannika Dark

#57. Don't be unkind." I'm used to ordering him around, but this sounds like a request

Victoria Aveyard

#58. The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.

Anne Fadiman

#59. Before taking his leave of a premises, the dustman would request either beer or a tip for his trouble, quaintly known in the trade as 'sparrows'.

Lee Jackson

#60. Business needs to move to adopt much more scalable pull platforms. When we talk about pull platforms, often people focus on one level of pull, which is what we call access. It's simply, if I have a need, I can make a request, get the resource or the information I need when needed.

John Hagel III

#61. There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#62. By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country; and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#63. And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.

Walter Scott

#64. It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.

Geoffrey Wood

#65. From a floor below someone was singing with a karaoke machine, Paul McCartney's 'Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time,' completely out of tune. 'Beyond doubt the worst Christmas song ever written,' New York said to me, quietly. 'Like a request to God to end the universe.

Glen Duncan

#66. The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act.

Dante Alighieri

#67. Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#68. Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.

P. J. O'Rourke

#69. The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.

David Jeremiah

#70. People don't mind being challenged to do better if they
know the request is coming from a caring heart

Ken Blanchard

#71. I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

Paul Sadler

#72. In America, being able to get things done, especially if it's by bending rules, making exceptions, or calling in a favor, is the way to show power. In France, being able to say non (especially to a bureaucratically legitimate request) is the way to show power. And piss me off.

Vivian Swift

#73. A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.

Walt Disney

#74. You know one thing I always wanted in a man?" "What?" "Clean fingernails." Justin laughed and looked at his own hand as Amira played with his fingers. "That's a pretty easy request." "You'd be surprised how many men have dirty nails. I don't mean on top. I mean underneath." "I

Celeste Stewart

#75. This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.

Matthew Polly

#76. Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

Thomas Carlyle

#77. When I need to see the president, I make a request directly to his scheduler. I don't have to ask anybody's permission to see the president except the president. Some weeks, I see him multiple times. Some weeks, I don't see him at all.

John Holdren

#78. For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

Barney Frank

#79. Rostov went on ahead to fulfil the request, and to his great surprise learned that Dolokhov the brawler, Dolokhov the bully, lived in Moscow with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate of sons and brothers.

Leo Tolstoy

#80. He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#81. All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.

Rashod Ollison

#82. I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

George Hamilton

#83. Can I have a final request in case I don't make it?"
"Anything."
"I haven't been kissed in five years, kiss me Trajan," she whispered. "I am so afraid." Trajan slowly pushed his glasses onto the top of his head and brought his lips softly to hers.

Amy Kuivalainen

#84. Never go to sleep
without a request to your subconscious.

Thomas A. Edison

#85. Going into his master's house to ravish his daughter's maidenhood - at her request? He had never heard of a less sensible prospect.

Diana Gabaldon

#86. You have no idea. Lillith was defiant and obstinate. Adam was, well, he was a man. He thought with his dick. He asked God for a companion. It was his only request. God told him his wife would show herself to him. He misunderstood. He came upon Lillith bathing in the lake.

T.L. Brown

#87. NO" is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer someone's request with a simple No.

Sharon E. Rainey

#88. I'm checking my pockets for spare words and sentences but I'm finding none, not an adverb, not a preposition or even a dangling participle because there doesn't exist a single response to such an outlandish request.

Tahereh Mafi

#89. Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#90. He throws his hands up in a request for mercy, I'm not in the mood so I stab him in the heart.

David Estes

#91. preserving the essence, in fact the breath - when it opened, his museum displayed Thomas Edison's last exhalation, captured by his son in a test tube at Ford's request - of a more durable American experience.

Greg Grandin

#92. All of those who ask for, request or demand a title of this book will be asked to return it immediately.

Theodore Ficklestein

#93. When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like.

Markus Zusak

#94. You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

Susanna Kaysen

#95. Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.

Pawan Mishra

#96. Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#97. A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

#98. By the time she'd finished with him, with a little encouraging pat and a request that he rest quiet like a good lad, there was no point in denying it: Holly Evernight would be the death of him.

Kristen Callihan

#99. In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

Sophie Calle

#100. For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

Julia Bacha