Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Jim Butcher

You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

Carlisle Floyd

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

Candice Patton

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

Kathryn Schulz

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

Julian Baggini

Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse).

Keri Russell

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

Gloria Vanderbilt

I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

H. L. Mencken

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

Gertrude Stein

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

Francis Schaeffer

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

Francis Schaeffer

Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

Homer

I want answers now or I want them eventually!

I felt they wouldn't have answers for us inside. Once (McGivney and Ervin) got in foul trouble we had to slow it down a bit.

I can understand the young kids playing inconsistently, but it's our experienced players I have no answers for.

I don't think he knew what he was doing. If you're having a mental breakdown and you need answers quickly, you go to church.

I don't think anybody today sees a reason for a filibuster, but they may after the hearing if the answers are troubling to them or they feel they haven't gotten the answers to important questions.

Fay Vincent

I don't think Bud really has any choice now. If he does nothing, Congress will surely jump in again. They're going want answers about Bonds. I think there's very little room for Bud to maneuver here. Baseball needs to have its own independent investigation.

I don't worry about it, ... If I did, I'd be focused on the wrong thing. I know it's the business but if it happens, it happens. Quite frankly, I'm just trying to find the answers to the questions we have.

David Duval

I don't think this answers whether I can get it back. But I still know how to play, how to compete. Standing on that tee, I knew I had to make at least one birdie, if not two. And you can't hit it as good as I did on those holes. The heat was there, and I did it.

E. O. Wilson

How many people will change routes? How many people will flex hours? How many people will telecommute? Carpool? Etc. This is a challenge. People do want answers now, but we don't have them.

I call out to him, 'Fester, my love,' and he answers me.

Honore de Balzac

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

James Brolin

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

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.

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.

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.