Question Quotes

"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"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area"

James Larkin, Activist

"Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street"

Cornel West, Educator

"The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares"

Benny Green, Musician

"It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it"

Brandon Thomas, Actor

"Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer"

Joe Simon

"I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre"

Paul Haggis, Director

"At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people"

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive"

Robert Fisk, Journalist

"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes"

Gene Roddenberry, Producer

"I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country"

David Obey, Politician

"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better"

Paula Cole, Musician

"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it"

Alva Noto, Artist

"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"

Alva Noto, Artist

"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy"

Henry Wade, Lawyer

"The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"

Donald Kagan, Historian

"In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on"

Billy Tauzin, Politician

"I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild"

Saxby Chambliss, Politician

"Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn"

Pete Waterman, Producer

"In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Abortion is a question of choice"

Robert Casey, Politician

"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"

Kristen Stewart, Actress

"The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored"

John Poindexter, Public Servant

"Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"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"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

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