Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eoin Colfer

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

Eminem

I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer

Esther Hicks

As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand.

Esther Hicks

When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.

Eudora Welty

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

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.

Gore Vidal

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

Gina Gershon

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while

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.

Erica Jong

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

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.

Annie Potts

I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

I used to think, 'I wonder if I could break his leg at training today'. I'd question what I was even doing there, spending so much time when I knew I wouldn't get to play. The answer always came back to, 'What would I rather be doing, sitting on the bench for the All Blacks or sitting at home watching it on TV?' The answer was always the same.

I wanted to get the thoughts out of my mind of being molested myself, and the arrogant way he answered my questions.

Robert Byrd

I want answers - we all want answers - as to why it took so long for rescue teams to get on the ground. There is no excuse for the days of delay and the inexplicable lack of coordination in the response effort, ... We knew the danger was coming. Yet, the government failed to respond. Lives were lost because the government failed to do its job.

Thank you so much for coming forward. You have helped bring many answers to my family,

Some would say it's time to recognize that the world has changed - that the number of intelligence questions that can be answered with images from space is very limited.

Jerry Spinelli

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

I've had a lot of things of a real spiritual nature happen, ... I asked God what to do next. The answer was just instant; a complete package.

I've got these wonderful little movies of the robots doing the moves in the office with people answering phones in the background.

Warren Spector

I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

I'm pleased the court ruled in our favor, ... I am looking forward to taking my case to court and to forcing Jesse Jackson to answer for his actions.

I'm prepared to vote (for it). I think councilmen have had an opportunity to go in and ask all their questions and the city manager has made every attempt to answer those questions.