Question Quotes

"The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?"

Kathleen Battle, Actress

"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"

Ang Lee, Director

"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"

Daniel Inouye, Politician

"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer"

Ronald Colman, Actor

"I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?"

Bernard Ebbers, Businessman

"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man"

Chuck Robb, Politician

"The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest"

Albert Barnes, Theologian

"It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question"

Arthur Cohn, Producer

"The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so"

Anthony LaPaglia, Actor

"People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well"

Rupert Grint, Actor

"President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear"

Wilbur Mills, Politician

"I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen"

Alan Alda, Actor

"We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families"

Jeb Bush, Politician

"At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"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"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

"The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity"

George Oppen, Poet

"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere"

Paul Allen, Businessman

"Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently"

Edward Cocker, Author

"There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system"

William M. Daley, Politician

"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"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story"

Richard Grant, Author

"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene"

Louis Leakey, Scientist

"Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions"

Steve Hackett, Writer

"Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions"

David Wu, Politician

"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals"

Ron Davies, Politician

"An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one"

John Tuley

"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?""

Erwin Chargaff, Scientist

"You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions"

Herbert Prochnow

"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question"

James Collins, Athlete

"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"

Georges Cuvier, Scientist

"Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?"

Candace Cameron, Actress

"One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question"

Shania Twain, Musician

"Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes"

Josephine Baker, Dancer

"I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'"

Warwick Davis, Actor

"It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

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