Ask Quotes - page 3

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
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
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Norman Mailer
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
Anne Rice
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
Ronald Fisher
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. Travers
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. (Gloria Steinem)
People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.
Emo Philips
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
Edith Wharton
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
Don Marquis
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. (Anthony Robbins)
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris Pasternak
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
David Hilbert
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
Charles Caleb Colton
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
Sandy Koufax