Question Quotes

"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that"

Don Nickles, Politician

"Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is"

Howard Fineman, Journalist

"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in"

Jacqueline McKenzie, Actress

"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"

Nick Hornby, Writer

"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring"

Mira Nair, Director

"The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres"

Peter Hammill, Musician

"It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance"

Eisaku Sato, Politician

"This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail"

Donald Cram, Scientist

"Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions"

Ernst Thalmann, Politician

"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man"

David Hilbert, Mathematician

"That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer"

Anthony Eden, Politician

"Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits"

Henry Cole, Public Servant

"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them"

Frank Moore Colby, Educator

"First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability"

David Kay, Scientist

"It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress"

John Boehner, Politician

"My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities"

Bjarne Stroustrup, Scientist

"The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"

David Hilbert, Mathematician

"But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there"

Bode Miller, Athlete

"I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out"

Carlton Fisk, Athlete

"Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved"

Dominique Wilkins, Athlete

"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like"

Charles Dance, Actor

"If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting"

Bruce Nauman, Sculptor

"The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying"

George Ball, Politician

"The question of sex will take care of itself"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence"

Dennis Prager, Journalist

"But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Writer

"My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions"

Emma Watson, Actress

"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"

Frank Moore Colby, Educator

"It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

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