Questions As Statements Quotes

#1. I just realized he was phrasing all of his questions as statements. Wasn't there a character in Alice in Wonderland who did that? Did Alice punch him in the face?

David Wong

#2. Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

T.L. Rese

#3. Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

Daniel H. Pink

#4. you create your life in two ways: by the statements you say to yourself and others, and by the questions you ask yourselves and others.

Noah St. John

#5. Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.

Christopher Kelk Ingold

#6. Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

Joyce Cary

#7. The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

Os Guinness

#8. To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

Paul Valery

#9. Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Phil McGraw

#10. My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#11. Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.

William Hazlitt

#12. I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

Albert Oehlen

#13. I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.

Mike Patton

#14. Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that.

Robert Adams

#15. Cinema is incredibly concise.

Yann Martel

#16. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master; walking altogether like harmony in a song. - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

#17. You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

Megan Smith

#18. Life is hard and then we die!

Barbara Johnson

#19. 'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.

Lena Headey

#20. I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?

Howard Shore

#21. Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Guardino

#22. Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Djuna Barnes

#23. The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

George R R Martin

#24. Any statements from the parents may seem like criticism or judgment by the child or adolescent. It's very important that the child or adolescent does most of the talking and the parent asks questions curiously to understand the perspective of the child or adolescent.

Timothy Carey

#25. Pull - don't push. Investigate - don't present. Probe - don't pitch. Ask - don't assume. How? Talk less - listen more. Make fewer statements - ask more questions.

Darren Hardy

#26. Man is a thought-adventurer.

D.H. Lawrence