Question Quotes

"One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"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"

John Sladek, Author

"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?"

Joseph Howe, Politician

"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"

Steven Chu, Scientist

"Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?"

Michael Keaton, Actor

"The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal"

Clare Short, Politician

"Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day"

Andre Braugher, Actor

"What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest"

Millicent Fawcett, Activist

"For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media"

Will Wright, Scientist

"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"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination"

Eddie Marsan, Actor

"No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite"

David Hilbert, Mathematician

"There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial"

Kenneth Edmonds, Musician

"Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good"

Julian Assange, Activist

"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"

Harold H. Greene, Judge

"Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement"

David Bohm, Scientist

"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"

Elena Kagan, Judge

"I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress"

Dan Brown, Author

"In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it"

Georg Cantor, Mathematician

"Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know"

Cate Blanchett, Actress

"That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction"

John Boehner, Politician

"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them"

Franz Marc, Artist

"Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different"

Dannii Minogue, Musician

"The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death"

Daniel Petrie, Director

"It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers"

Diane Wood, Judge

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