#requests

CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table. GRACE: -Is that an order? CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests. GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from orders. [She sits down] ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#orders #requests #solitude #love

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#aware #committee #documents #formal #i

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#director #doing #exactly #get #involved

It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bloc #co-workers #countries #deny #everywhere

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. ↗

— John Strachan

#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so. ↗

— Edward Heath

#around #i #interest #lack #me

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#breaks #budget #budget cuts #bush #city

A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#contact #estate #few #hitchcock #i

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. ↗

— Liz Phair

#anymore #chaos #give #hack #i

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#fuehrer #give #give me #had #i