Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
~By Tommy Chong ~
The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
~By Hugh Trevor Roper ~
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
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 ~
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
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 ~
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
~By Antony Jay ~
That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
~By Daniel Okrent ~
I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.
~By Lizzie Andrew Borden ~
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 ~
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~By Richard Bach ~
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
~By Jared Diamond ~
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 constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
~By Joan Rivers ~
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 ~
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 ~
In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
~By Carolyn McCarthy ~
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 ~
The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
~By Joan Collins ~
I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'
~By Martha Plimpton ~
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
~By Ang Lee ~
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
~By Edward Levi ~
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 ~
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
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 used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.
~By Milton Bradley ~
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 true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
~By James Allen ~
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
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 ~
The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
~By Allan Sloan ~
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
~By Karen Hughes ~
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
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 ~
Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'
~By Chris Matthews ~
The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.
~By David Prowse ~
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 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 ~
Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
~By Helen Reddy ~
Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
~By Zakk Wylde ~
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 ~
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
~By Og Mandino ~
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 ~
The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.
~By Justin Guarini ~
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.
~By George Woodcock ~
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
~By Paul McCartney ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.
~By Rob Corddry ~
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 ~
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~By Johnny Depp ~
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
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 traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.
~By Joan Blades ~
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
~By Kate Chopin ~
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.
~By George Stigler ~
My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.
~By Gina Gershon ~
At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
~By Ulrich Walter ~
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 ~
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
~By Joseph Howe ~
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
~By Mark Haddon ~
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
~By Leon Kass ~
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
~By John Clayton ~
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
~By Paul Haggis ~
Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.
~By Ernst Thalmann ~
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
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 ~
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.
~By Joe Sacco ~
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 most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
~By John Fowles ~
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
~By Rick Wright ~
I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.
~By Stacy Keach ~
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 have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
~By Patrick McGoohan ~
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
~By John Searle ~
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