Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Russo

...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

Robert De Niro

You don'’t always have to have the answer to everything.

Richard L. Evans

In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

Roland Barthes

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

Rod McKuen

Everybody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand-new question.

Robin McKinley

...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

Robert Towne

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

Sarah Lacy

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

Will Thomas

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

William S. Burroughs

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

Wilma Mankiller

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

Wim Wenders

Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

Zig Ziglar

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

Wendell Berry

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

Will Smith

Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.

Warren Buffett

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

Samuel Beckett

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

Ramana Maharshi

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Scott Pelley

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

Laurie Halse Anderson

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

Terry Pratchett

Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Terence McKenna

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Shannon Miller

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.

Roxane Gay

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

Robert M. Pirsig

every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.

Tom Brokaw

It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers...

Tina Fey

Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.

Tim Ferriss

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

Sam Donaldson

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.