I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
~By George H. W. Bush ~
People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.
~By Layne Staley ~
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
~By Tracy Chapman ~
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
~By Mark Haddon ~
A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.
~By Ronald Colman ~
Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
~By Bill Mumy ~
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 ~
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
~By Vanessa Redgrave ~
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
~By John J. Sirica ~
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
Every clarification breeds new questions.
~By Arthur Bloch ~
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.
~By John Astin ~
And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
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 ~
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
~By Og Mandino ~
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
~By John Osborne ~
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
~By Herman Hesse ~
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
~By Carl Van Vechten ~
I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.
~By Pete Seeger ~
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
~By Walter Martin ~
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
~By Harold Ramis ~
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
~By Pete Seeger ~
My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
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 ~
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
~By David Antin ~
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~By Bono ~
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
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 ~
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 questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
~By Mark Haddon ~
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
~By Robert Stone ~
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.
~By Jonathan Kellerman ~
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
~By Chris Matthews ~
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.
~By Helen Suzman ~
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.
~By Serge Lang ~
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.
~By Georges Cuvier ~
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.
~By Sue Wicks ~
I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.
~By Elena Kagan ~
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
~By Jude Law ~
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 ~
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
~By Danny Glover ~
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 ~
Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
~By Pete Seeger ~
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
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 ~
If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
~By Hans Frank ~
You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
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 ~
Great questions make great reporting.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
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 ~
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
~By James Allen ~
If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
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 ~
'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 ~
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 ~
My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
~By Emanuel Celler ~
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
~By John A. Simone, Sr. ~
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
~By Betty Dodson ~
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 ~
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
~By George Wald ~
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
~By John Fowles ~
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
~By Anne Rice ~
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
~By Susanne Langer ~
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 ~
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
~By Voltaire ~
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.
~By Jay London ~
As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.
~By Bernard Barton ~
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
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