Questionnaire Quotes

#1. "Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"

Barack Obama

#2. They don't have to all be maidens."
"Well, that's very liberal of you," Caroline said with a sisterly smirk. "But since I can hardly hand out a questionnaire as regards their experiences in that regard, we'll have to leave it there.

Julia Quinn

#3. I fared excellent on the zombie apocalypse assessment; however, I did not do so well on the surviving without your love questionnaire.

Amanda Mosher

#4. The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

James Lipton

#5. We could ask about anything; the only constraint was that the questionnaire should include at least one mention of fish, to make it pertinent to the mission of the department. This went on for many months, and we treated ourselves to an orgy of data collection.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.

T.C. Boyle

#7. And it dawned on me that I had not designed the questionnaire to find a woman I could accept, but to find someone who might accept me.

Graeme Simsion

#8. I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Alan Shearer

#9. A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.

Nick Hornby

#10. Heterosexual Questionnaire:
- What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
- Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
- To whom have you disclosed your heterosexuality?
- How did they react?

Martin Rochlin

#11. Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

John F. Kennedy

#12. My name is Lieutenant Meyer. I'll be your rescuer today. This rescue of your person is brought to you by the United States Navy and SEAL Team 8. we hope you have a nice rescue, and please feel free to fill out the questionnaire at the end of the trip. Tips are welcome.

Sophie Oak

#13. OhioColumbus: New regulations are requiring state residents to do more to get unemployment benefits: They must post their rsums on Ohio's job-search website, take three assessments and complete an unemployment questionnaire.

Anonymous

#14. Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

Virginia Postrel

#15. I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

Michael Baumgartner

#16. Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

Robert Breault

#17. Determined and focused people tend to work harder and get tasks done more promptly. They stay married longer and have deeper networks of friends. They often have higher-paying jobs. But this questionnaire is not intended to test personal organization. Rather, it's designed to measure a personality

Charles Duhigg

#18. The stars here and the ones there are each special for their own reason. You grew up looking at these, while I looked at mine. Now we've both looked at each of them together.

Nyrae Dawn

#19. Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

Valerie June

#20. Only the brave should teach ... Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

Pearl S. Buck

#21. What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart ...

Helen Fielding

#23. Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

John C. Maxwell

#24. At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Richard Rorty

#25. I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

Henrik Ibsen

#26. O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!

Robert Burns

#27. IT IS IN THE MOMENT OF YOUR DECISION THAT YOU LIFE IS SHAPED.

Anthony Robbins