Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Asimov

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

Certainly, the poor condition of moose in that area has hurt the survival rate of calves. And we're hoping our research and this new study will be able to answer some of those questions.

Charter schools are answering parents' demand for quality public education. We are proud to recognize these distinguished policy makers for championing efforts that will help the charter movement grow in both quality and scale, ultimately opening doors for millions more children.

Robert Herrick

Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry / Full and fair ones; come and buy; / If so be, you ask me where / They do grow? I answer there, / Where my Julia's lips do smile; / There's the land, or cherry-isle.

George Santayana

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which are beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Mitchell Baker

But very often people ask us if we're in this for revenge or to go after Microsoft or if that's what we think about, and the answer is no.

Steve Erickson

'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.

Home ownership is not the answer for all. That's all we are saying.

Russell Crowe

Hopefully at some stage, I'll be able to apologize directly to Nestor but at the moment, he's not answering his phone.

Michael Nichols

Honor is the reward to those who answer the call to serve.

Jeff Garcia

Honestly, to hear and know what people are saying out there, they don't expect me to do anything, ... It motivates me all the time. 'I'm old. I'm over the hill. I'm not the answer. I won't be the answer in the future. I won't be the answer come Sunday.' We'll see.

Honestly, if I could answer that question, I would. I have been thinking about it. I think I have gotten too comfortable out there, and I think I need to bring more energy instead of just going through the motions.

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.

Neal Shusterman

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

Milan Kundera

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

Jose Saramago

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Kelley Armstrong

You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?" I didn't do anything" Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot" -Chloe & Derek-

John Cage

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

The long-term question for Nielsen to answer is: Where is the redundancy? To operate on a real-time basis, doesn't a system have to have a backup redundancy built in?

The main objective for me is security, I do not want to have to answer to my neighbors.

Robin Ince

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

James Patterson

Fear is not the answer, not ever.

Emile M. Cioran

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

The day of reckoning is upon us. The question that will be answered Tuesday is whether the Fed believes that the recent spate of surprisingly strong inflation data indicates that they no longer have the luxury of taking a more cautious approach.

The day he died, he called me at 6:17 that morning, but the call never came through. I'll never have the answer to the question of what he wanted to say to me.

Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to turn the Earth on its head overnight. But given the vastness of his ambitions ... I would have expected in the first eight months he would be doing lots of things of consequence: more significant personnel moves, more significant documents, more serious public engagements, etc., etc.

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

All of the sudden I see the phone ring. I stared at it for a minute. Should I answer it? I picked it up. And they wanted to bring me back. I was in shock that I got the phone call, to be honest.

All of these things he's doing just delay the process. I guarantee we can answer anyone of these and there would be something else, I don't care what it is.

All the major economic issues remain on the table. We're not going to the table with an answer to any of these issues. We have not wanted a strike. There are no winners in a strike.

Ronald Reagan

And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to whom you will vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have.