Trick Questions Quotes

#1. We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

Patti Smith

#2. Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Gordon Livingston

#3. Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.

Fred Alan Wolf

#4. On the other side of pain, there is still love.

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. The streets transform every ordinary day into a series of trick questions, and every incorrect answer risks a beat-down, a shooting, or a pregnancy. No one survives unscathed. And yet the heat that springs from the constant danger, from a lifestyle of near-death experience, is thrilling.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. A good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

Anne Roe

#7. I'm two seconds away from castrating you with my heel.

Christina Lauren

#8. I am not exactly wallowing in guilt at the moment, but guilt is guilt.It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified.

J.D. Salinger

#9. She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions.

Kate Morton

#10. My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.

Nadine Velazquez

#11. I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

Eve Ensler

#12. This morning I watched a Diane Sawyer interview where there wasn't one awkward pause. The trick is to pose good questions. "So how was being in the war?" I ask. I'm always saying the wrong thing.

Kathleen Hale

#13. It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

Martha Ostenso

#14. You're as happy as you allow yourself to be - so why be unhappy?

Marilyn Quayle