“If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague answer, such as, ‘Poetry is the music of words,’ or ‘Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.’”
― A. R. Ammons
“The principle of Sturgeon’s Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.”
― Aaron Allston
“Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It’s up to me to come up with an answer.”
― Aaron Judge
“Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.”
― Abdolkarim Soroush
“Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.”
― Abdullah II of Jordan
“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I’ll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N – O!”
― Abraham Polonsky
“I’m not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.”
― Adam Driver
“It’s time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven’t we seen these documents?”
― Adam McKay
“A travel-size dry shampoo is the answer to many problems.”
― Aerin Lauder
“Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.”
― Al Green
“We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.”
― Alan Autry
“Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.”
― Albert Camus
“Evidence of defendants’ lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.”
― Alex Berenson
“It’s not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don’t capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.”
― Alex Ebert
“My last meal on Earth? The obvious answer is a plate of my mother’s scrambled eggs.”
― Alex Guarnaschelli
“There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.”
― Alexi Zentner
“Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.”
― Alexis Bledel
“What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.”
― Alison Gopnik
“I always ask, ‘Is this movie essential? Does this movie need to exist? Does it need to exist right now?’ And the answer to that is almost always no.”
― Allison Williams
“I’ve often contemplated some kind of tummy tuck surgery, but I know this is not the answer.”
― Amanda de Cadenet
“Everybody tells me, ‘You’re famous.’ And I answer, ‘I’m not Angelina Jolie!’”
― Amanda Knox
“If you just stay with it and take it scene by scene, episode by episode, all of the questions that I have, as an actor, tend to answer themselves.”
― Amanda Warren
“My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we’d answer them in English.”
― America Ferrera
“But now it’s kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one’s expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I’ll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.”
― Amy Grant
“There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I’m not a businessman, I am a climber.”
― Anatoli Boukreev
“I went through a period of watching probably too many Bergman films in a row. I felt like I’d discovered the answer to what cinema should be.”
― Andrew Haigh
“During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it’s about two thirds of the way through the book – I’m just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.”
― Andrew Sean Greer
“Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.”
― Andy Grove
“You ask me a question, I’m going to give you an honest answer.”
― Andy Roddick
“A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.”
― Andy Serkis
“Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.”
― Angela Merkel
“When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy – the next Lisa Leslie.”
― Angie Thomas
“If there is a problem with democracy, the answer has to be more democracy.”
― Anibal Acevedo Vila
“There is no scientific answer for success. You can’t define it. You’ve simply got to live it and do it.”
― Anita Roddick
“Whenever a liberal begins a statement with ‘I don’t know which is more frightening’, you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.”
― Ann Coulter
“There are times when I think, ‘Do I have the energy to be upset?’ and the answer is ‘no.’”
― Anna Faris
“When people ask what I’d like to do next, the answer is usually, ‘Something with people in rooms.’”
― Anna Popplewell
“I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.”
― Anne Hutchinson
“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
― Anne Rice
“In the South, people in power feel they don’t have to answer to no one.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton
“The love of my life? I’m much too young to answer that question.”
― Aretha Franklin
“State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.”
― Arne Duncan
“However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.”
― Asma Jahangir
“Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.”
― B. R. Ambedkar
“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.”
― Barack Obama
“But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.”
― Barack Obama
“There is one question that I don’t think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.”
― Barbara Olson
“Make films whenever and however you can – don’t take no for an answer.”
― Beeban Kidron
“To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.”
― Benjamin N. Cardozo
“No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.”
― Benjamin Robbins Curtis
“The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.”
― Benjamin Tucker
“I answer the questions I want, and I don’t the ones I don’t.”
― Benji Madden
“When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.”
― Bennett Miller
“I refused to take no for an answer.”
― Bessie Coleman
“Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.”
― Bill Foster
“What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.”
― Bill Veeck
“Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.”
― Billy Corgan
“I serve and answer to the Texans I represent – not the Hollywood elite.”
― Blake Farenthold
“If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.”
― Bob Filner
“The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.”
― Bob Menendez
“I was invincible. I believed all my problems were gone and I finally made it, that L.A. was my answer to everything.”
― Bonnie McKee
“The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.”
― Boris Johnson
“I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic ‘No.’”
― Boyle Roche
“The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.”
― Boz Scaggs
“I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than you actually publish.”
― Brad Feld
“Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.”
― Brian Greene
“Don’t take no as an answer – anyone can achieve anything.”
― Buddy Murphy
“Rasta is to know. Rasta is to answer, which is the final step.”
― Burning Spear
“In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.”
― C. V. Raman
“When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.”
― Carl Icahn
“What is American music? The most satisfying answer I’ve come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it’s not one particular set of sounds.”
― Carlisle Floyd
“China will be the answer to Japan’s problems.”
― Carlos Ghosn
“The only answer to the question ‘Which is the worst of the ‘Star Wars’ movies?’ is, there is no worst ‘Star Wars’ movie. There – one might be the least amazing and fantastic, but there’s none that is the worst of the ‘Star Wars’ movies.”
― Cass Sunstein
“Big, expensive government is not the answer for people without disabilities, nor is it for those with.”
― Cathy McMorris Rodgers
“As far as investors and customers are concerned, I make it a point to answer each and every piece of mail that comes to me.”
― Chanda Kochhar
“Washington Democrats see the IRS’ overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.”
― Charles Boustany
“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
― Charles Caleb Colton
“It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.”
― Charles Dickens
“We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.”
― Charles Kennedy
“Aunt Marion was right… Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“The question is just as important as the answer.”
― Charlie Rose
“Production is the only answer to inflation.”
― Chester Bowles
“They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer.”
― Chester Brown
“I answer two or three letters a day. I’m just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.”
― Chris Bohjalian
“I have two basic votes before I vote: is it constitutional, and is it in the interests of my people. If the answer is yes to both of them, then I vote for it, and I don’t care who authored it.”
― Chris Gibson
“Can we live without Russian gas in Europe? The answer is no. Are there any reasons to live without it? I think – and I’m not defending the interests of Total in Russia – it is a no.”
― Christophe de Margerie
“If the question is, ‘Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,’ the answer is, ‘You bet.’ If the question is, ‘Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,’ the answer must remain, ‘No.’”
― Christopher Buckley
“I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.”
― Christopher Lloyd
“I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can’t answer for anybody else.”
― Chuck Grassley
“The answer is there is no answer.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.”
― Chuck Schumer
“If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.”
― Cillian Murphy
“Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.”
― Claire Danes
“Most of the characters I’m drawn to, as an actor, are ones that are quite intensely lonely and a bit lost and are looking for some kind of redemptive answer.”
― Colin Morgan
“Anytime somebody tells me they saw ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ in the theater, my answer is, ‘That was you?’”
― Colin Trevorrow
“I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.”
― Corey Stoll
“Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.”
― Daisy Donovan
“I don’t like people lying to me. I don’t like people who don’t return my calls. I don’t like people who won’t give me a straight answer. I don’t like those kinds of people, and I’ve been vocal about it.”
― Dan Aykroyd
“It’s time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.”
― Dan Coats
“When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I’ve been there ever since.”
― Dan DeCarlo
“When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.”
― Dan Quayle
“As a press secretary and on ‘The Five,’ I’ve learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There’s combative or productive – I get to take my pick.”
― Dana Perino
“How do we live the writer’s life? There’s only one simple answer: ‘we write.’”
― Dani Shapiro
“I generally will answer any question about anything.”
― Danny Masterson
“I’m very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer – so it’s not like things just fall in my lap.”
― Darren Criss
“I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don’t have an answer for it.”
― Dave Ramsey
“What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What’s its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.”
― David Baltimore
“Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown.”
― David Blunkett
“I’m often asked what it takes to be ‘Series A ready’ in terms of metrics, progress, and traction. Unfortunately, there’s no easy answer.”
― David Cohen
“Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.”
― David Duchovny
“Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.”
― David Pratt
“The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.”
― David Prowse
“Gerald Jonas’s book about stuttering is called ‘The Disorder of Many Theories.’ Back theory seems to suffer from the same ‘Rashomon’ effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.”
― David Shields
“I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.”
― David Suzuki
“There are always going to be questions – I know that. I’ll let my playing answer my questions.”
― DeAngelo Williams
“If you have a problem with my answer that’s your problem, not my problem.”
― Dennis Rodman
“This might be the wrong answer, but I kind of just eat whatever I want in moderation.”
― Devon Windsor
“We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council’s call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.”
― Dick Cheney
“I know love is the answer.”
― DJ Khaled
“My mama told me it’s not what they call you – it’s what you answer to.”
― Donna Brazile
“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.”
― Dorothy Day
“The answer to New Orleans’s levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.”
― Douglas Brinkley
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
― e. e. cummings
“From my undergraduate days, I’ve always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don’t seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.”
― E. L. Doctorow
“I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren’t pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.”
― Ed Rendell
“Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.”
― Eduardo Galeano
“If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.”
― Edward Witten
“Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.”
― Eileen Caddy
“If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I’ve always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.”
― Eli Broad
“A lot of fiction doesn’t answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.”
― Elif Batuman
“I tell girls, ‘If you’re tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.’”
― Elizabeth Berkley
“I’ve come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, ‘What if?’”
― Ellen Klages
“When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.”
― Elmer Rice
“Success is always the best answer to critics.”
― Eniola Aluko
“When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that’s a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.”
― Eric Schmidt
“If the Treasury Department should not remove Hamilton from the $10 bill, what should they do? The answer is fairly simple: Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.”
― Eric Schneiderman
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
― Erica Jong
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
― Erich Fromm
“The future of Norway isn’t about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state, and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.”
― Erna Solberg
“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’”
― Erwin Chargaff
“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
― Eugene Ionesco
“’What is Twitter?’ has always been a tough question to answer.”
― Evan Williams
“I asked God for a healthy baby. An answer arrived in my daughter.”
― Faith Salie
“But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.”
― Fisher Stevens
“I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it’s through the Net. And I always answer it, if it’s legible.”
― Florence Henderson
“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
― Francis Bacon
“In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that’s when you get the answer.”
― Francis Ford Coppola
“But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we’ll do that.”
― Francis Maude
“Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.”
― Francis Schaeffer
“Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.”
― Frans Timmermans
“If you can’t answer the question ‘What is VR adding to that experience?’ – and it should be more than just a gee-whiz thing – then that project shouldn’t be in VR. You’re not taking full advantage of your medium.”
― Freddie Wong
“I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.”
― Frederick Banting
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
― Frederick Douglass
“Don’t be afraid. There is no right answer in fashion.”
― G-Dragon
“I’m a total loner. I can’t even answer texts or take my phone with me when I’m working!”
― Gage Golightly
“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
― Galileo Galilei
“Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, ‘Is there anybody out there?’ Are we alone?”
― Garik Israelian
“As we all know… golf is a puzzle without an answer.”
― Gary Player
“Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.”
― Gary Wolf
“Do I support a driver’s license for everybody? The answer is yes.”
― Gavin Newsom
“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.”
― George H. W. Bush
“The shortest answer is doing.”
― George Herbert
“The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.”
― George Leigh Mallory
“Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!”
― George Meredith
“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.”
― Gertrude Stein
“What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?”
― Gertrude Stein
“Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.”
― Gertrude Stein
“Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue – and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.”
― Gillian Cross
“My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.”
― Gina Gershon
“But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?”
― Gregory Bateson
“A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.”
― Gregory Bateson
“It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.”
― Gregory Bateson
“We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer… only to find out that our answer wasn’t quite the answer.”
― Guy Finley
“I never answer, because I can’t, which is my favorite among my own books.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay
“I’ll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.”
― Guy Pearce
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
― H. L. Mencken
“I’m often asked, ‘Why didn’t Benjamin Franklin ever become president?’ My short, easy answer is: He died.”
― H. W. Brands
“That’s the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.”
― Hal Sutton
“I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.”
― Hans Vestberg
“The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.”
― Harold Stephen Black
“Study up on the Eastern religions. They’re the only ones that are realistic. There’s no answer, see.”
― Harry Dean Stanton
“There is no answer. That’s what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.”
― Harry Dean Stanton
“The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.”
― Harvey S. Firestone
“When it comes to reforming MPs’ expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they’re claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.”
― Heather Brooke
“But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer.”
― Helen Thomas
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Logic is no answer to passion.”
― Herb Caen
“I’m kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers… Or doesn’t answer.”
― Hillary Scott
“Never answer a question from a farmer.”
― Hubert H. Humphrey
“I’m travelling more than ever. I don’t have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I’ve got older.”
― Hugh Masekela
“Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.”
― Ingrid Newkirk
“Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.”
― Ivan Pavlov
“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”
― Jacob Bronowski
“When I believe in something, I’m very passionate. I don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith
“I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone else in the room, ‘Dave Eggers.’”
― James Bernard Frost
“All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.”
― James Black
“The film industry is about saying ‘no’ to people, and inherently you cannot take ‘no’ for an answer.”
― James Cameron
“So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can’t is simply whining.”
― James Collins
“I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the ‘so what’ of a story.”
― James G. Stavridis
“My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.”
― James Langevin
“More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.”
― James Langevin
“My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.”
― James Meredith
“The threshold question: Will banks continue to exist? The answer is yes, because society will still need the two essential functions they provide: mobilization of capital from providers to users, and facilitation of payments for goods and services.”
― James P. Gorman
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
― James Thurber
“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
― Jane Austen
“We don’t infantilize our kids. If they ask us a question that’s tough, we answer it honestly.”
― Jason Jones
“I don’t want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films – and I hope there isn’t – it’s to be open-minded.”
― Jason Reitman
“And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.”
― Jean-Francois Lyotard
“If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.”
― Jean-Francois Lyotard
“Play is the answer to the question, ‘How does anything new come about?’”
― Jean Piaget
“The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That’s the difficult thing you learn.”
― Jean Smart
“Paranormal fiction offers authors – and readers – the chance to answer the question, ‘What if?’ All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.”
― Jeaniene Frost
“The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail… the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.”
― Jeff Cooper
“The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington – not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.”
― Jeff Sessions
“Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don’t know the answer.”
― Jennifer Doudna
“Airships could be part of the answer to Africa’s infrastructure woes – if the financial challenges are overcome.”
― Jens Martin Skibsted
“It seems to me that the way to remove people’s cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.”
― Jeremy Paxman
“I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.”
― Jerome Lawrence
“More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.”
― Jerome Powell
“You can ask me anything you want. That doesn’t mean I’m going to answer you.”
― Jerry Lewis
“Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It’s great.”
― Jessica Hahn
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
“If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.”
― Jim Harrison
“Whenever the media asked me how much I have received in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, my unapologetic answer was, ‘Not enough.’”
― Jim Inhofe
“Shale is one answer to the U.K.’s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.”
― Jim Ratcliffe
“The only people I don’t answer are bill collectors.”
― Jimmy Breslin
“In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.”
― Joanna Southcott
“My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.”
― Joanna Southcott
“If you keep working hard and not take ‘no’ for an answer, you achieve.”
― Joe Bonamassa
“Which editor? I can’t think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.”
― Joe Simon
“The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.”
― Joey Ramone
“A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.”
― John Amery
“An answer is always a form of death.”
― John Fowles
“I think that’s not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.”
― John Hume
“I don’t want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn’t.”
― John Kitzhaber
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
― John Lennon
“If you’re asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.”
― John Oliver
“It is easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.”
― John Osborne
“After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.”
― John Sununu
“If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.”
― John T. Chambers
“We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?”
― John Thaw
“An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.”
― John Tukey
“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”
― John Tukey
“An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.”
― John Tukey
“Gods don’t answer letters.”
― John Updike
“The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn’t think of asking.”
― Jonathan Kozol
“Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, ‘What happened?’ but rather, ‘How then shall I live?’ And it’s only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.”
― Jonathan Sacks
“I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I’m also uncomfortable with the word ‘God’… I’m agnostic about the answer and I’m agnostic about the question.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
“I have been asking if I’m an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I’m just a journalist who asks questions.”
― Jorge Ramos
“The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.”
― Josh Groban
“Here’s the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.”
― Josh McDowell
“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”
― Joshua Ferris
“Well, I don’t think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.”
― Judge Mills Lane
“I’m an e-mail junkie though I’m trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.”
― Judy Blume
“Uh’ is not an answer.”
― Judy Sheindlin
“What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.”
― Julian Assange
“If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.”
― Kailash Satyarthi
“I’ve learned that I don’t take ‘no’ as an answer. I’m very competitive; I’m very prideful.”
― Kane Brown
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
― Karl Kraus
“People who live in glass houses… have to answer the door.”
― Karl Pilkington
“Hmmm… I never get the answer I think I’m going to get.”
― Kate O’Brien
“I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I’m too pretty. How can I answer that?”
― Katharine Ross
“’Alice in Wonderland’ has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve’s answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.”
― Kathe Koja
“We’re terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don’t know.”
― Kathryn Schulz
“I don’t take no for an answer.”
― Katrina Adams
“I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.”
― Keegan Allen
“I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn’t really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.”
― Keenen Ivory Wayans
“I answer every single e-mail that comes in myself.”
― Keith Belling
“People always ask me how I got interested in the Shakers, but I have no clear-cut answer.”
― Ken Hakuta
“I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.”
― Kent McCord
“Is Mitt Romney a bully? And the answer is, no… He does not have a vicious bone in his body.”
― Kerry Healey
“I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.”
― Kevin Gates
“You don’t have to answer someone’s questions. That’s just how I was raised.”
― Kiiara
“Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.”
― Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
“Honestly, I would love to be friends with Fox Mulder on ‘The X-Files.’ That’s almost a little too obvious, but that would be my answer. I’d love to hang out with him.”
― Kumail Nanjiani
“Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn’t fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.”
― Kurt Eichenwald
“Everyone asks, ‘What’s your favorite trend?’ And I never answer that.”
― Kylie Jenner
“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
“I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.”
― Langston Hughes
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
― Lao Tzu
“You gotta ask ‘why’ questions. ‘Why did you do this?’ A ‘why’ question you can’t answer with one word.”
― Larry King
“’The Daily Show,’ at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.”
― Larry Wilmore
“I know it’s a stock answer, but besides acting, I’d love to produce and direct.”
― LaTanya Richardson
“The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.”
― Lee Child
“Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.”
― Len Deighton
“To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.”
― Leonhard Euler
“His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.”
― Lewis Carroll
“Life is a question without a standard answer.”
― Li Shufu
“My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink – Flippers – in the early Eighties which was the West Coast’s answer to Studio 54.”
― Liberty Ross
“Younger generations, they ask more questions, like on a recipe. But they ask them online. If my staff doesn’t know how to answer it, I will answer.”
― Lidia Bastianich
“Non-technical questions sometimes don’t have an answer at all.”
― Linus Torvalds
“I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don’t feel satisfied until I have the answer.”
― Lisa Lutz
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
― Lloyd Alexander
“What you are is a question only you can answer.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold
“I’m always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.”
― Loudon Wainwright III
“Forcing polarized groups into a swarm allows them to find the answer that most people are satisfied with.”
― Louis B. Rosenberg
“A poll will give you the most popular answer but not the answer that optimizes the preference of a group.”
― Louis B. Rosenberg
“I’m no good at describing my books. ‘Holes’ has been out now for seven years, and I still can’t come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.”
― Louis Sachar
“If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, ‘Anything goes’, and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.”
― Louis Theroux
“With such compelling information, the question is why haven’t we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.”
― Lucille Roybal-Allard
“Turkey hunting is my thing; it’s only once a year, but if it’s turkey season, don’t call me, because I won’t answer.”
― Luke Combs
“It’s not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.”
― Lzzy Hale
“Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
― Mae West
“It’s too many questions about what I’m going to do, why I’m retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don’t know, a thousand times.”
― Marat Safin
“At a certain point in your career – I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.”
― Marc Andreessen
“Obamacare’s a disaster. But the answer is not to simply return to the way things were before. The answer is to repeal and replace Obamacare with modern, market-centered reforms.”
― Marco Rubio
“Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to answer that. It’s one of the great mysteries.”
― Marco Rubio
“The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.”
― Marco Rubio
“Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.”
― Mario Monti
“Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?”
― Mark Steyn
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain
“My daughter’s got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she’s running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.”
― Mark V. Hurd
“I’ve seen such a turnaround with this new administration, with President Trump, that when we came to a conclusion, the answer was yes – yes, we can make a difference.”
― Markwayne Mullin
“I’m different, and my manner invites questions. I’m never afraid to answer.”
― Marlee Matlin
“An overly expansive virtual ‘toll’ for the Internet that blocks consumers’ and competitors’ access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.”
― Marsha Blackburn
“If somebody’s not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.”
― Martin Bashir
“I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.”
― Martin Parr
“The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world.”
― Marvin Harris
“I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.”
― Mary Ann Mobley
“Opportunity knocks, but doesn’t always answer to its name.”
― Mason Cooley
“Folly always knows the answer.”
― Mason Cooley
“Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding ‘heck no!’”
― Matt Gaetz
“Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems.”
― Matt Groening
“A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And I think we should answer ‘yes.’”
― Matthew Desmond
“If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed.”
― Matthew Walker
“My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That’s not everybody’s answer.”
― Maura Tierney
“If I receive a phone call from Real Madrid, I won’t answer.”
― Mauro Icardi
“Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.”
― Max Planck
“Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues.”
― Meir Soloveichik
“When Trump says no one loves women more than he does, what exactly is he referring to? Fantasizing about them on the ‘Access Hollywood’ bus? Placing them only in professional roles that answer to him?”
― Mel Robbins
“What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.”
― Merton Miller
“One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.”
― Michael Hayden
“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
“There was a thing on Facebook that said, ‘Describe George Clooney’s wedding in three words,’ and my answer was, ‘Not invited again.’”
― Michael O’Keefe
“When my daughter asks, ‘What do you do?’, every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.”
― Michelle Williams
“You can do a lot of damage if you try to answer a question part-way.”
― Mike Lee
“When I sit down to do an interview, I try to be polite and answer the questions that I’m asked.”
― Mike Portnoy
“In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.”
― Mike Quigley
“Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.”
― Mike Quigley
“Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.”
― Mike Wallace
“The thing is, I get asked when I first knew I wanted to act so often, and I genuinely can’t answer it. It’s just… I got the bug, and that’s it.”
― Millie Bobby Brown
“Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.”
― Mira Nair
“The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.”
― Mitt Romney
“The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and the press, and to have to answer the difficult and uncomfortable questions, be investigated, and learn the thrust and parry of political swordplay.”
― Monica Crowley
“He ended it. He just said he didn’t – he – well, what he said was that he didn’t feel it was right, and you know, I mean that’s – because he ended it, he’d probably have to be the one to answer that.”
― Monica Lewinsky
“I answer only to God.”
― Mr. T
“The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.”
― MS Dhoni
“Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.”
― Muhammad Ali
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, ‘How do I know when to launch my product?’ The answer, more often than not, should be: ‘Now!’”
― Naveen Jain
“Everything having to do with President Trump and Russia, whether it is Mr. Trump’s demand for an investigation into the investigation by the special counsel Robert Mueller, or whether Mr. Trump will testify, requires an answer to one essential background question: Can Mr. Mueller seek to indict the president?”
― Neal Katyal
“If you’re a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you’re not going to be a good scientist.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should – to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.”
― Neil Gorsuch
“Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly ‘yes’, but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.”
― Neil Kinnock
“One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal.”
― Nicholas Negroponte
“My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I’d answer whichever took my fancy.”
― Nicola Griffith
“You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.”
― Nipsey Hussle
“My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies.”
― Norman Finkelstein
“Someone once asked, ‘What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?’ The answer is, ‘I have a conscience and he doesn’t.’”
― Norman Schwarzkopf
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”
― Oscar Wilde
“But it’s a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don’t want people latching on to a particular stereotype.”
― Parminder Nagra
“Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn’t know the answer.”
― Pat Barker
“To Southerners like my mother, ‘Gone With the Wind’ was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.”
― Pat Conroy
“I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.”
― Pat Sajak
“The surprising question we get is, ‘How many people telecommute at Google?’ And our answer is, ‘As few as possible.’”
― Patrick Pichette
“I’d say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.”
― Paul Downs Colaizzo
“The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional.”
― Paul Manafort
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.”
― Paul Tillich
“If someone asks me a question, it is very difficult not to answer honestly.”
― Penelope Tree
“The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.”
― Pete Hoekstra
“Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.”
― Pete Seeger
“Marxism, communism, socialism – the ideologies – did not have the automatic answers to the problem of the relations between the lighter and darker races of mankind. They did not even have an answer to anti-Semitism.”
― Peter Abrahams
“It’s hard to imagine any Muslim fessing up to their secret proclivity for Sharia law knowing they would be deported if they gave the wrong answer.”
― Peter Bergen
“She said, and I’m not kidding, ‘Is this a speaking role?’ I wasn’t quite sure how to answer that one.”
― Peter Bergman
“It was so much easier to connect with my fans when I was smaller. I could answer every message, and I enjoyed doing that.”
― PewDiePie
“I answer questions the best I can.”
― Pharrell Williams
“At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.”
― Piers Anthony
“Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.”
― Prabhas
“I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.”
― Pramila Jayapal
“It is not every question that deserves an answer.”
― Publilius Syrus
“I’m a fighter, and I don’t take no for an answer.”
― Rachel Platten
“How do we get more politicians to move from ‘fixing’ the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public’s dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.”
― Raghuram Rajan
“While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, ‘When are you playing for the nation?’ – a question which I didn’t have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.”
― Rahul Dravid
“Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn’t my house is mentally helpful: ‘This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,’ and ‘over there is the place where I do the dishes.’”
― Randall Munroe
“As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.”
― Randy Falco
“New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus.”
― Ray Kurzweil
“If you see someone struggling, offer input. If someone comes to you with a question, don’t assume they should seek a higher up for the answer.”
― Rebecca Serle
“Russia and Iran back Assad, but are they fighting Daesh? The answer is ‘no.’”
― Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“Is that your final answer?”
― Regis Philbin
“They’re caught where there’s no way out or where you can’t see out. What are you going to do about it? I don’t have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.”
― Ric Ocasek
“I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?”
― Richard Courant
“The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.”
― Richard Dawkins
“All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It’s fiction’s business to ask them.”
― Richard Hughes
“Solutions are not the answer.”
― Richard M. Nixon
“Faced with a deep recession, some say the answer is to expand the role of government.”
― Rick Scott
“I’m not opposed to anything. If an opportunity comes across, I’ll answer the door if it comes knocking.”
― Rob Brown
“Hollywood’s a mecca, but it’s not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.”
― Robert Duvall
“’Maybe.’ There’s our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.”
― Robert Fulghum
“Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.”
― Robert McNamara
“I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.”
― Robert Vaughn
“The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.”
― Robert Zubrin
“Most white people cannot answer the question, ‘What does it mean to be white?’ with any depth or complexity.”
― Robin DiAngelo
“If I have to answer one more time, ‘Why did you want to remake ‘Straw Dogs?” with the emphasis on the word ‘why,’ I’m going to flip out.”
― Rod Lurie
“Whenever I’m asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.”
― Roger Moore
“Literature is the question minus the answer.”
― Roland Barthes
“Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic?”
― Ron Fournier
“The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.”
― Ron White
“Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you’re the only one with the answer.”
― Ronald D. Moore
“I couldn’t imagine doing a show where I’d once again have to answer to corporate interests.”
― Rosie O’Donnell
“The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.”
― Ruth Benedict
“I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.”
― Ruth Rendell
“Special ops isn’t the answer to everything. Special ops is not the main guard.”
― Ryan Zinke
“In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.”
― Sabine Baring-Gould
“The answer is pretty clear that your intelligence can actually be changed.”
― Sal Khan
“Most financial questions don’t have one right answer – just an answer that’s right for you.”
― Sallie Krawcheck
“The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.”
― Salman Rushdie
“If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I’ll give the answer. I’m too open.”
― Sam Taylor-Johnson
“We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.”
― Sammy Davis, Jr.
“Smarter is always the answer.”
― Samuel J. Palmisano
“When my characters are questioning things, it’s not me leading up to an answer; it’s me asking those same questions and letting the characters’ lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.”
― Sara Zarr
“If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists – take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions – how can we be sure we can protect our sources?”
― Sarah Harrison
“I’ll answer anything… I’m brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.”
― Sarah McLachlan
“We need a president willing to embrace the idea that Washington is not the answer to all, or even most, of our problems, regardless of who is in charge.”
― Scott Pruitt
“There is no simple answer to what I think.”
― Sean Parker
“Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.”
― Serge Lang
“What is the point of one guy developing a 1.3 engine, and another guy a 1.4? What are you getting for this? And the answer is nothing: a total waste of capital.”
― Sergio Marchionne
“There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we’re planning for the parade.”
― Shaquille O’Neal
“Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!”
― Shaquille O’Neal
“Normally, when a fighter gets challenged, they answer.”
― Shayna Baszler
“Before impugning an opponent’s motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.”
― Sidney Hook
“Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.”
― Sojourner Truth
“A wise man’s question contains half the answer.”
― Solomon Ibn Gabirol
“My little brothers can ask me any question in the world, and if I’ve got the answer, I’m going to give it to them.”
― Stefon Diggs
“You could probably ask anyone who loves Fincher films, and they couldn’t answer why.”
― Stellan Skarsgard
“When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’”
― Stephen King
“What value does cryptocurrency actually add? No one’s been able to answer that question for me.”
― Steve Eisman
“Being slick is not the right answer.”
― Steve Jurvetson
“So let’s find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare’s answer was, ‘Just make everybody pay more’.”
― Steve Scalise
“Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here’s mine: Everybody’s gonna make mistakes.”
― Steve Schirripa
“I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. ‘The Brady Bunch’ was an answer to a prayer.”
― Susan Olsen
“I’m a trained engineer, so I’m conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it’s so subjective.”
― Sushant Singh Rajput
“Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.”
― Suzi Quatro
“Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I just don’t believe that ‘no’ is always a final answer – unless we’re talking about consent.”
― Tarana Burke
“We – again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.”
― Tavis Smiley
“Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.”
― Ted Cruz
“I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids… my older parents and my preachers and everybody.”
― Terry Bradshaw
“I’m just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don’t answer it truthfully then I’m not respected.”
― Terry Bradshaw
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“I’ll answer to none but the King himself.”
― Thomas Blood
“Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.”
― Thomas Frank
“The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.”
― Thomas Friedman
“’Tis not every question that deserves an answer.”
― Thomas Fuller
“The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.”
― Thomas Starr King
“Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.”
― Timothy Murphy
“Why do Canadians sell themselves short? I’ve never been able to answer that question.”
― Tobias Lutke
“I think Evan Bayh directly should answer to the many Hoosiers I’ve spoken with who have questions about his ethical practices, or lack thereof, when he served in the United States Senate.”
― Todd Young
“I don’t answer my phone in a restaurant.”
― Tom Douglas
“When my son was little, he asked me: ‘Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?’ I still don’t know the answer.”
― Tom Frieden
“Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, ‘Certainly not.’”
― Tom Paulin
“There are two answers to every question – God’s answer and everybody else’s – and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.”
― Tony Evans
“A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.”
― Tracy K. Smith
“Throwing more science at things isn’t always the answer.”
― Tyler Cowen
“I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can’t answer for her.”
― Verne Troyer
“It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth’s atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.”
― Victor Francis Hess
“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Viktor E. Frankl
“Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.”
― Viola Davis
“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”
― W. C. Fields
“A president, like a college freshman, can’t know in advance which questions he’ll have to answer or what topics he’ll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.”
― Walter Kirn
“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”
― William Shakespeare
“As a pure source of reference, ‘Modernist Cuisine’ is incredibly helpful. It’s like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It’s not always the answer, but it’s always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it.”
― Wylie Dufresne
“An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of ‘dilemma’ is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.”
― Yair Lapid
“I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.”
― Yami Gautam
“You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year’s answer might not do for another.”
― Yo-Yo Ma
“Sadhvi Pragya is an answer to those who have maligned the image of Hindus by using the phrase ‘Hindu terrorism.’”
― Yogi Adityanath
“I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.”
― Yogi Berra
“If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.”
― Yogi Berra
“Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.”
― Yuri Milner
“Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.”
― Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
“To a smart girl men are no problem – they’re the answer.”
― Zsa Zsa Gabor
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