I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits.
~By Henry Cole ~
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
~By Jean Genet ~
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.
~By Jeff Gannon ~
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
~By Andre Malraux ~
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances.
~By Shiri Appleby ~
When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.
~By Alan Dershowitz ~
Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.
~By Rick Yune ~
The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
~By Francois Jacob ~
And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
~By Donald Johanson ~
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
~By Carl Bernstein ~
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
~By John Abbott ~
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
~By Alan Dundes ~
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
~By Arthur Miller ~
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
~By Scott Adams ~
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
~By Stephen Hawking ~
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
~By Max Beckmann ~
Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
~By Kevin Smith ~
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
~By Paul Haggis ~
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
~By Freeman Thomas ~
If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.
~By Sonia Braga ~
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
~By John Fowles ~
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
~By Clive Bell ~
For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
~By Brian May ~
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
~By Jose Saramago ~
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
~By Angelina Grimke ~
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
~By Anthony Kennedy ~
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
~By Lillian Smith ~
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
~By Mary Astor ~
If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.
~By Harry Stack Sullivan ~
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
~By Francis Bacon ~
It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.
~By Steven Squyres ~
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
~By Steve Hackett ~
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
~By James Thurber ~
I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.
~By Judy Biggert ~
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.
~By Kim Novak ~
I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
~By John Sladek ~
We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
~By Jeb Bush ~
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
~By Merrill Markoe ~
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
~By Kofi Annan ~
I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.
~By Richard Grant ~
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
~By Will Durant ~
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.
~By Jay London ~
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
~By David Packard ~
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
~By Samantha Bee ~
If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
~By Courtney Love ~
It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
~By Jaclyn Smith ~
One can always debate questions back and forth.
~By Robert Bourassa ~
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
~By Herbert Simon ~
Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.
~By Serge Lang ~
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
~By Kiana Tom ~
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
~By Nick Cave ~
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
~By George Eliot ~
Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
~By Tommy Chong ~
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
~By Patrick McGoohan ~
Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
~By Jill Scott ~
I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.
~By James Wolfensohn ~
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.
~By Steven Chu ~
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?
~By Jeff Gannon ~
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
~By Voltaire ~
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
~By Nils-Axel Morner ~
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
~By Jacqueline McKenzie ~
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
~By John Lennon ~
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
~By Charles Eames ~
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
~By Trevor Phillips ~
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