Question Quotes

"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

"One can always debate questions back and forth"

Robert Bourassa, Politician

"Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer"

Michael Connelly, Author

"Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal"

Malcolm Mclaren, Musician

"There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?"

Jon Voight, Actor

"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives"

W. G. Sebald, Writer

"Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself"

Jaclyn Smith, Actress

"I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses"

Vicente Aleixandre, Poet

"I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask"

Samantha Bee, Comedian

"So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?"

Mark Poster

"Literature is the question minus the answer"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China"

Chen Ning Yang, Physicist

"Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them"

Richard Hughes, Writer

"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years"

Ian Smith

"The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers"

Marcia Wallace, Actress

"I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in"

Strom Thurmond, Politician

"At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun"

Rene Auberjonois, Actor

"People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?"

John Simon, Critic

"It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised"

Shoshana Zuboff, Educator

"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

"I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?"

Tom Sizemore, Actor

"The best project is one that asks a novel question"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"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"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something"

Glenn Close, Actress

"It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot"

Edmond About, Novelist

"I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question"

Lamar Hunt, Entertainer

"Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him"

Michael Isikoff, Journalist

"It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along"

Kevin Williamson, Author

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