#asked

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#asked #bats #been #box #dozen

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. ↗

— David Brin

#bringing #called #child #debt #full

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#authority #calls #eavesdrop #his #international

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#asked #been #coach #consider #good

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations. ↗

— Ron Ziegler

#anyone #asked #couple #gas #i

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#around #ask #asked #earn #even

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#asked #get #into #once #part

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#ask #asked #because #black #blond

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know? ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#audition #because #him #i #know

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. ↗

— Iris Chang

#afterwards #asked #because #book #emphasized