Question Quotes

"The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"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"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present"

Paul Darrow, Actor

"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"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search"

Anne Parillaud, Actress

"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer"

James Newman, Astronaut

"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions"

Antony Jay, Writer

"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"

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession"

Simone Signoret, Actress

"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"The media's job is to question a premise"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots"

Wendy Cope, Poet

"Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions"

Michael York, Actor

"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"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!"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"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"

Kate Chopin, Author

"My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'"

Kristen Stewart, Actress

"And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

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