Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Abrams

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Derek Jeter

I think, a lot of times, players get in trouble when they're asked questions and they think they have to find a way to answer it. If you ask me a question and I say, 'I don't know,' there's really no follow-up.

David Christian

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

Adam McKay

It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

Jim Garrison

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.

Bjarne Stroustrup

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

Bahman Ghobadi

I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

Ray Bradbury

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Tony Blair

We have seen what the so-called new evidence is and we think we can answer every point,

There is potential exposure there. Whether it's criminal responsibility or not, I can't gauge. Certainly they're ethically responsible, and in terms of civil penalties there's a good chance they'll have to answer to the government.

There is no requirement to our knowledge that we stop operating while these issues are being answered so, until we are told otherwise, we are going to continue.

The only thing we do is focus on this process. We don't have to answer calls for assistance in other places. We're focused and dedicated in one mission and that's why we're able to do what we do.

To be able to answer is big. It took the wind out of their sails after they had some.

Jim Haslett

The phone rang, and my wife answered it. She said Scott was on the phone, and she kind of mumbled a (last) name. I said, 'Tell him I'm not home.

The practical answer there is no. Bloomingdale's serves a customer that lends itself to a different kind of market. I don't think that's a realistic possibility.

There are a number of possibilities of what can happen. As you saw in the last remand, we simply issued a clarification that answered the questions that were posed by the U.S. Supreme Court. We just don't know at this point, it's going to depend on what events develop during the day.

Cory Doctorow

There are answers that cover the short, medium and long term. Everyone needs to realise that the thing the internet is good at is copying files, especially text files, between different locations. It is not a bug that needs cured, it doesn't need fixed, it's what makes the internet work. More people are reading more words from more screens everyday. It's not going to be long before the majority of text people read is in a digital format.

John Rhys-Davies

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

John Ryan

When you find a body you can't help thinking about what this person had to go through before they died. It's tough to put it in words, ... But we were determined to answer all of the calls ....After everything we went through with 9/11, I think all of us in New Jersey understand how important it is to respond to these calls.

John Gibbons

There are 10 games left, and he's not ready to go today, ... Or tomorrow. So I can't answer that yet.

There are lots of cops and robbers shows, but what attracted me to this part was that they've cut out all the jargon. There's no, 'Roger, Roger' or 'Over'. We simply answer the phone, 'Yeah, what do you want?'

We always seem to answer when the other team scores. That's pretty good. We're swinging the bat pretty well right now.

Frank Beamer

When you know who it is, you kind of want to protect him. For getting a feel for who the guy is overall, how he is going to respond to pressure, we have to let him go live. The guy who has poise, a calmness about him when things get tight . . . that certainly is a key, key issue for us right now and we need to get as many answers as we can.

When you have an All-American player, you go to her. We went to her early in this game and she didn't answer the bell. When you get her the ball on the block, you expect her to score. She missed some bunnies and that's why I gave her an early seat. When she went back in, our kids are smart enough to realize she's our bread and butter. This time she produced.

There has to be a more satisfactory answer than let's do more of the same. It's a bit of folly to say people don't put down roots and aren't needed in these jobs.

Jay Rockefeller

When (beneficiaries) call the 1-800 number, they can wait for a week, a month. They can wait until the Iraq war is over. Nobody answers the phone.

Whenever and wherever our major partner, important friend the United States asks assistance ... NATO stands ready to answer those calls, because NATO is based on solidarity.

Alan Dershowitz

We just have no idea what the answers are to those questions at this point in time.

We knew it was going to be a really tough game. It's always a tough game coming up here. Especially this year. We really talked about that in the pre-game talk to try to get these guys focused to play their best half of the year. I think we answered the bell.

We kept answering (at the plate). We kept controlling the game. Every time they would score we would score. We kept extending the lead and made it more and more difficult for them.

We keep asking the Board of Control for Cricket in India to confirm whether they want to be part of the Games. But they have no time to answer our question. Maybe they are just not interested.

Charlie Whitehurst

We're not out of it yet. I wish I had an answer for you. We should do this all the time.