[to receptionist after being asked about her father (Leon)] Mathilda: He's not my father. He's my lover.
Ben Sanderson: [when asked who he's speaking to by a woman at the bar] Little brown-nosed gnomes with a sling-shot.
George Shapiro: Andy, you have to look inside and ask this question: who are you trying to entertain - the audience or yourself?
Brian: I was bleeding, I kept passing out, I wet my bed, and you never asked why!
Mark Van Doren: Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.
[after being asked what his costume was] Major Giles Lacy: Strong man, Old man.
P.L. Travers: You are the only American I have ever liked. Ralph: May I ask why? P.L. Travers: No.
Red: [narrating] Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say-so.
Death: Don't you ever stop asking? Antonius Block: No. I never stop. Death: But you're not getting an answer.
[Asked to write his own epitaph] David St. Hubbins: Here lies David St. Hubbins... and why not?
Marwood: If my father was loaded I'd ask him for some money. Withnail: If your father was my father you wouldn't get it.
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.
I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, 'Who's idea was it to go see him? And is it too late to ask for my money back?'
We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.
As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.
