Suetonius states that Domitius was congratulated by friends on the birth of his son, whereupon he replied " I don't think anything produced by me and Agrippina could possibly be good for the state or the people ".

" To that the satyr replied, " I am a corpse, one of those whom the heathen calls satyrs, and by them were snared into idolatry.

Sapir replied stating that it " should by all means be published "; however, it was not until 1993 that it was prepared for publication by Lyle Campbell and Frances Karttunen.

When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace ( no name given ) forged by four dwarves ( named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer ), she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them.

When asked by a Newsweek reporter if he wished to play a political role, Stephen Jones replied, " It would not be my choice.

In the years when the Deccan Traps hypothesis was linked to a slower extinction, Luis Alvarez ( who died in 1988 ) replied that paleontologists were being misled by sparse data.

When Duke Jing of Qi asked about government, by which he meant proper administration so as to bring social harmony, Confucius replied:

After a talk by Chandrasekhar on the limit in 1935, he replied:

In response to letters prompted by this paper, Dyson replied, " A solid shell or ring surrounding a star is mechanically impossible.

He admits that " a large fraction his audience seems to be those who are fascinated by technology ", but when it was suggested that his work " has inspired many students to begin careers in computing and artificial intelligence " he replied that he was pleased about that, but that he himself has " no interest in computers.

Proclus introduces Euclid only briefly in his fifth-century Commentary on the Elements, as the author of Elements, that he was mentioned by Archimedes, and that when King Ptolemy asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, " Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry.

Sullivan said, " I guess The Crickets are not too excited to be on The Ed Sullivan Show ," to which Holly, still annoyed by Sullivan's attitude, replied, " I hope they're damn more excited than I am.

Vancouver gravely replied that he was unable " in a private capacity to answer for his public conduct in his official duty " and offered instead to submit to formal examination by flag officers.

Finkelstein replied to the " hysterical " allegations by Novick on his homepage.

Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, Hannibal is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself.

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

Kornilov, convinced that Kerensky had been taken prisoner by the Bolsheviks and was acting under duress, replied by issuing a call to all Russians to " save their dying land.

" Mr Cameron replied to concerns about the " Devonwall " constituency by stating that " It's the Tamar, not the Amazon, for Heaven's sake "; a move that was read in the press as indicative of his plan not to oppose the merger of the constituencies in Devon and Cornwall.

When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs.

When asked how he developed his mathematical abilities so rapidly, he replied " by studying the masters, not their pupils.

With 7 O-levels, he applied for a job at a duplicating office machine company and when asked by the interviewer why he applied, Foster replied: ' mainly because it offered the prospect of a company car, and a £ 1, 000 salary.

According to a report in The Times, quoting the ' New York Courier and Inquirer ', the American secretary of state raised it in a letter to Lord Ashburton: " The Creole case is presented in strong terms by Mr Webster in a letter ( which, when published, will bring all the anti-slavery people about his ears )..." To this Lord Ashburton replied that as the case had effectively arisen after his departure from England he was ‘ not empowered to treat upon the subject ’.

Some other examples of his bitter sarcasms are recorded by Diogenes ; one of which is worth quoting as a maxim in criticism: being asked by Aratus how to obtain the pure text of Homer, he replied, " If we could find the old copies, and not those with modern emendations.

Gardner in turn replied quoting his own earlier description of Wilson: " The former boy wonder, tall and handsome in his turtleneck sweater, has now decayed into one of those amiable eccentrics for which the land of Conan Doyle is noted.

Pascal replied, also quoting Aristotle ( he seemingly was the only one to use this argument in this debate ), that Aristotle spoke only of knowledge of the actual circumstances of the act, but not at all of the capacity to discriminate between good and evil — since Aristotle stated that one who was devoided of that capacity was not excused at all, but rather considered a vicious man.

Neither slumber overtakes Him nor sleep ," replied the stranger with the caravan, quoting the Ayat al-Kursi ( the verse of the Throne )"

On 30 July in Bristol, he married Edith Peglar, who had replied to an advertisement for a housekeeper.

In 1583 De Monte sent Byrd his setting of verses 1 – 4 of Psalm 136 ( Super flumina Babylonis ), including the pointed question ’ How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?’ Byrd replied the following year with a setting of the defiant continuation, set, like de Monte's piece, in eight parts and incorporating a three-part canon by inversion.

Asked by a group of music students in Boston which twentieth-century composer he most admired, he replied, " Gershwin: because in an age of experimentation with rhythm ... Gershwin kept song alive.

Rappers Jay-Z, Kurupt, Sticky Fingaz, Big Pun, DMX, Wyclef Jean and the Wu-Tang Clan replied to the song and Nas, who received the track positively, invited Jackson to travel on a promotional tour for his Nastradamus album.

" A later campaign used the well-known song tune of " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " cleverly reworded as ::" They asked me how I knew, it was Esso Blue, I of course replied, with lower grades one buys, smoke gets in your eyes.

Asked in August 2010 if Soundgarden will record new material, Cornell replied, " it would be exciting to record one song, to hear how Soundgarden-ish that might be this much time later.

The Carol was a popular Norman dance in which the leader sang and was surrounded by a circle of dancers who replied with the same song.

Later versions of the story related that Blondel went from castle to castle, singing a particular song that only he and Richard knew, and that the imprisoned Richard replied with the second verse-thus identifying where he was imprisoned.

Moody was asked by a local pastor what he felt was the primary contribution that a gospel singer and song leader such as Ira Sankey brought to his meetings he replied, " If we can only get people to have the words of the Love of God coming from their mouths it's well on its way to residing in their hearts.

When asked about the meaning of the work's duration in its ten movements and the reason for the use of the ondes Martenot, Messiaen simply replied, " It's a love song.

In one he was asked what inspired him to compose the song, to which he replied, " The same sweet memory that inspired that other Hoosier, James Whitcomb Riley, to sing the ' Old Swimmin ' Hold.

When asked if Ned's is planning on recording any new material together, Penney replied, " I think we will, but don't hold your breath – song writing is a slow process for Ned's.

I gathered that the young men were musicians and as I had just written a poem which I thought would make a good song, I mentioned this fact, and one of the musicians replied that he had just written some music.

When asked during a concert by a fan to play Suede song, " The Drowners ", Anderson replied saying, " Did somebody say they wanted to hear The Drowners?

Asked in one interview about the unhappiness she expresses in " Shadow " about her childhood, and whether it's " just for the song ," Simpson replied:

After the match in an interview a reporter asked Klinger about Nimni, Klinger replied " do you want it in a phrase or a song ; Avi Nimni is the king ".

" When interviewed about the " weird, jarring chord at the end of every line that mirrors the disturbed feeling of the song " Harrison replied: " That's an E7th with an F on top played on the piano.

When asked who the song was about in an interview with Helter Skelter, she replied, " You'll have to take a guess.

When asked both Slayer guitarists " which song holds best ," both replied " Raining Blood ".

They recommended that more music be added to the percussion-focused beat, but Harrison and Amerie replied that adding more to the beat would overpower the song.