Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamaica Kincaid

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

Jack White

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

Isaac Marion

She is everything. And if she is everything, maybe that's answer enough.

Isaac Asimov

You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.

Jeaniene Frost

Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer.

Jeff Bezos

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Jim Harrison

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

Jacqueline Carey

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

Garik Israelian

Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

George Packer

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Chris Lowell

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

George Orwell

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

George Orwell

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Frederick Douglass

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!

Frederick Buechner

It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

Frank Spotnitz

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

Fernando Pessoa

Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.

Hugh Masekela

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

Howard Baker

If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and they will answer these raids with actions, not words.

Gerry Fleming

He said (Greenville) showed what type of character they have and we'll see what type of character (Florida) has. I think we answered their question. I don't think you can question our character.

Gas is the best answer I can give you. Coal was replaced by gas in the mid 1960s, and at the time it was cheaper and easier. You didn't have to put coal up on the fire every day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

Galileo Galilei

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Janet Reno

Brokers may have gotten away with these crimes with little punishment before. Those days are over. If you prey on unsuspecting Americans, you're going to answer for your crimes,

Bessemer went to a zone and we answered with threes. We shot very well in the second quarter.

Everything that I get doesn't answer questions. It creates questions.

Everything needs to be answered at one time and that's very hard to do.

Even if the answer to FOP is only for FOP, it wouldn't in any way dissuade me from working on it, ... I would hope we can make a difference for these kids (and find) medications, treatment or therapy that would enable them to prevent a joint from turning into bone or restore movement to some joint already frozen.

Beneficiaries are having a difficult time answering the most important question: 'What does it mean for me?'

Belmont Technical College was a dream conceived by those with great vision as an answer to meeting many of the needs of the resident of the Ohio Valley, ... John Shannon was chosen to lead the way in this endeavor. As the college's first president, he represented the vision and perseverance that paved the way for the growth of the college.

William Hazlitt

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.