Top 100 Answer Questions Quotes
#1. Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.
Immanuel Kant
#2. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph W. Gerard
#3. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.
Bill Buxton
#4. Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen.
Jane Austen
#5. Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles,
Carly Fiorina
#6. Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.
Evelyn Ashford
#7. Who the fuck're you?" he asked, only it came out Hoo-a fuck-a you? Al hadn't given me detailed instructions on how to answer questions, so I said what seemed safest. "None of your fucking business." "Well fuck you, too." "Fine," I said. "We are in accord." "Huh?
Stephen King
#8. I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.
Joshua Cohen
#10. A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.
Margaret Atwood
#11. In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
Steve Carell
#12. I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.
Charlie Munger
#13. The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.
-Rick Ridgeway
Susan Magsamen
#14. People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
Roy H. Williams
#15. The word 'yes' is just a sound. It's nothing without context. It can signal the end of a life, an exultation after a scored basket or a vanquished foe; it can answer questions or refute them; it's an affirmation.
Josh Hanagarne
#16. I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can ... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon
#17. I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.
Cassandra Clare
#18. My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.
Henry Adams
#19. A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
Leonard Bernstein
#20. A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
Adam D'Angelo
#21. I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question
George W. Bush
#22. It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
Edward Abbey
#23. I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.
Louise Woodward
#24. Another agency - the IRS - did not do as well under Republicans who control Congress. The IRS is largely flatlined in their spending, but they did get about 300 million more funding. But I can only be used to help people pay their taxes and answer questions. It can't be used for any other purpose.
Susan Davis
#25. The part of me that creates the stories exists only in solitude. The one who shows up to share anecdotes and answer questions is a poor substitute for the story-maker.
Stephen King
#26. Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.
Tim Heaton
#27. The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.
Dale Rex Coman
#29. It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.
Pawan Mishra
#30. Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.
Mark Zuckerberg
#31. And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate.
Steven Hatfill
#32. One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.
Gwen Ifill
#33. The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.
Jonathan Kozol
#34. I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don't answer the telephone, we don't have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything
John C. Lilly
#35. But this graveyard of dead books doesn't unnerve me. It reminds me that I had a deeper motive, one that only the approach of old age and death has unlocked. I wrote to answer questions I had - the motive of all art, whatever its ostensible subject. There were things I urgently needed to know.
James Atlas
#36. I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.
Dean Ornish
#37. Our minds are driven to answer questions that far transcend the bounds of our own lives.
Terryl L. Givens
#38. The scriptures teach us the ways of the Lord. They answer questions about how to live today. They bring a light and a spirit into our lives that we can get in no other way.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#39. Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.
Robert McKee
#40. I'm just looking for authentic engagement of some kind, and usually, after an hour or more, you get that. Some people talk at you. Some people just want to answer questions, but a lot of times, all of a sudden you drift away, and you don't remember you're on the mic, and you're in something real.
Marc Maron
#41. If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.
George W. Bush
#42. Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
Mel Brooks
#43. Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
Eugene Ionesco
#44. I felt the little beads of sweat pooling on my temple. Sit here and look nice ... I could do that. But answer questions? I knew I wasn't going to win this little game; that wasn't the issue. I just really, really didn't want to look like a moron in front of the entire country.
Kiera Cass
#45. Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#46. If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.
Raymond E. Feist
#47. It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous, just because they were asked. Of course, we journalists would be out of business if they didn't.
Judith Martin
#48. WHY I should clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I require?
Napoleon Hill
#49. Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.
Will Schwalbe
#50. Religion and politics are inseparable because the values of our faith should inform what we value in our politics. They both seek to answer questions about the good life.
Jim DeMint
#51. As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture of a politician's wife, shoulders held back, dignifIed yet modest.
Tania James
#52. I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.
Laurel Nakadate
#53. I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that ... but I've never been very good at ... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.
Rik Mayall
#54. All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Richard Hughes
#55. 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
#56. It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly."
"Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said.
"Why not? They ought to."
I agreed.
Agatha Christie
#57. You need to answer questions on where, when and what to do
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Corporations must answer questions about why they should be in the blogosphere. Small Businesses need to answer questions about why they shouldn't.
Paul Gillin
#59. A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.
E. Digby Baltzell
#60. I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.
Rex Stout
#61. I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
Jon Meacham
#62. Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra ... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
Michael J. Saylor
#63. Republicans now have their own network in Fox, so guys who don't like to answer questions, like Trent Lott, have a place to go to hit softballs.
James Carville
#64. I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you'd like to.
Garth Greenwell
#65. Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
Mae Whitman
#66. When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.
Frederick Lenz
#67. 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
#68. I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.
Rory McIlroy
#69. most prototypes are built to answer questions such as, "Can we build it?" or "Will it work as expected?" instead of focusing on questions such as "Should we build it at all?" or "If we build it, will people buy it and use it?
Alberto Savoia
#70. The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.
J.M. Porup
#71. Raise Your Hand [10w]
Raise your hand to answer questions,
not to hit children.
Beryl Dov
#72. Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap.
Jacqueline Winspear
#73. I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
Edward Norton
#74. Other actors don't get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose it's interesting for everybody other than me.
Luke Treadaway
#75. Before my mother's tremulous anxiety I recover my composure. Now I can walk about and talk and answer questions without fear of having suddenly to lean against the wall because the world turns soft as rubber and my veins become brimstone.
Erich Maria Remarque
#76. I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.
Richard Ford
#77. I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.
Linda Blair
#78. There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.
Rubem Alves
#79. 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
#80. When Jeb Bush came on the shows and couldn't answer questions about Iraq, and when he looked like he was unsteady, it absolutely solidified the concerns that they had had all along about his skills.
Amy Walter
#82. People with a scientific mindset are analytical, open-minded, flexible and have the capacity to answer questions. They are basically focused on what they do not know, and only exceptionally on what they do know.
Eraldo Banovac
#83. Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do.
Hal Moore
#84. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
#85. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.
Gregory Benford
#86. Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
Julian Barnes
#87. Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
Rachel Cohn
#88. Don't ask questions you don't want the answer, Micah.
Maya Banks
#89. A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.
Jacob Abbott
#90. I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.
Michael Pollan
#91. You can think a thing over many times and still have no idea how you'll answer the question, if ever it's asked.
Laurie Graham
#92. Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
Timothy Keller
#93. I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
Eric Schmidt
#94. Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.
John Boyne
#95. A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.
Farshad Asl
#96. Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.
Walter Lippmann
#97. I would challenge anyone here to think of a questions upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one.
Sam Harris
#98. Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.
Roberta Gellis
#99. Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions.
Bram Stoker
#100. Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.
Max Lucado
