Question Quotes

"Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?"

Mark Bittman, Author

"Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead"

Tim Reid, Actor

"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself"

John Searle, Philosopher

"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"The greatest gift is not being afraid to question"

Ruby Dee, Actress

"What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that"

George Woodcock, Writer

"It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do"

Neil Jordan, Director

"Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age"

Frank Pittman

"The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might"

Ferdinand Lassalle, Politician

"The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly"

John Sherman Cooper, Politician

"But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy"

Oliver Stone, Director

"Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'"

Mary Kay Blakely

"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft"

James Lipton, Educator

"The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?"

Stephen Wolfram, Scientist

"There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater"

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Actress

"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400"

Ted Williams, Athlete

"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated"

Leon Kass, Educator

"After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion"

Kenneth Starr, Lawyer

"Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?"

Mohamed El-Erian, Businessman

"I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about"

Steven Squyres, Scientist

"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future"

Jude Law, Actor

"This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question"

Rick Ross, Celebrity

"I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America"

Tommy Franks, Soldier

"But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly"

Herman Gorter, Poet

"There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state"

William Kirby, Scientist

"Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers"

Merrill Markoe, Author

"I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'"

Martha Plimpton, Actress

"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it"

Mark Rylance, Actor

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