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People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Give, Wanted

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
Christopher Meloni

Fun, Yourself, Child

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Rita Rudner

Children, Last, Question

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush

Learning, Children, Find

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Old, Keep

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben

Problem, United, Indian

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
Richard Pryor

Alone, Nice, Care

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Bette Davis

Stars, Moon, Oh

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
Chief Joseph

Men, Government, Treated

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper

Often, Permission, Easier

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
Colin Powell

Children, Giving, Learn

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Colin Powell

Tell, Congress, Worse

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Spiritual, Heart, Tomorrow

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
Michelle Obama

Best, Mom, Parents

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
Henry Miller

Work, Good, Joy

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley

Wise, True, Honest

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
Lyndon B. Johnson

God, Best, Help

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.
Shannen Doherty

Chance, Everybody, Second

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Him, Others

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
Diogenes

Sunshine, Nothing, May

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
Keira Knightley

Live, Away, Guilt

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. Morgan

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Courage, Saying

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl Lagerfeld

Person, Marketing, Questions

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton

Best, Fool, Greatest

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
Morgan Freeman

Black, Stop, White

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
Elvis Presley

Singing, Anybody, Style

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen

Success, Yourself, True

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

Love, Angry, Allah

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