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When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?"

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me.

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.