Question Quotes

"My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it"

Charlie Norwood, Politician

"Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right"

Anne Wilson Schaef

"Every clarification breeds new questions"

Arthur Bloch

"That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it"

Courteney Cox, Actress

"As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are"

Antony Sher, Writer

"And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions"

Bruce Nauman, Sculptor

"I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions"

Alan Dershowitz, Lawyer

"It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration"

Agnes E. Meyer

"Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?"

Andrew Cuomo, Politician

"Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers"

A. R. Ammons, Poet

"You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life"

Burt Ward, Actor

"I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

"Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin"

Ann Robinson, Actress

"More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like"

Jackie Mason, Comedian

"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers"

Tony Robbins, Author

"The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully"

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Leader

"All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do"

Rowan Williams, Theologian

"And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system"

Gavyn Davies, Businessman

"A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?"

Johannes Rau, Statesman

"This question about Iraq has gotten personal"

Gerhard Schroder, Statesman

"The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion"

Gerhard Schroder, Statesman

"In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

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