Top 100 What Is The Quotes
#1. What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.
Lucy Ellmann
#2. not sit while the wind went by. Is the literary man to live always or chiefly sitting in a chamber through which nature enters by a window only? What is the use of the summer?
Henry David Thoreau
#3. This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.
Michael N. Castle
#4. A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.
Duane Michals
#6. Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved?
Matt Haig
#7. What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
H.L. Mencken
#9. What is the next step, the practical application?
- I will answer that the
absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become
capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline
which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.
Alan W. Watts
#10. Like" and "like" and "like"
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
Virginia Woolf
#12. The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?
Janet Reno
#13. Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
Alexandre Dumas
#14. A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.
Matthew Diamond
#15. What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
Lysander Spooner
#16. I think, by applying our production principles. First, we must identify our limiting step: what is the "egg" in our work?
Andrew S. Grove
#17. What is the truth?" Carmel asks. "What happened in that house? Am I really supposed to believe that Mike was murdered by a ghost?
Kendare Blake
#18. You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#19. If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
Leontyne Price
#20. Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.
George Will
#21. If you know the answer then you have knowledge, but if you know why the answer is right, how to find the answer, and what is the implications of the answer, then you are educated.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?
Adam Levin
#23. What is the worst thing about yourself that you like?
Amit Abraham
#24. What is the mind? The question is, of course, ultimately quite unanswerable. We do not and we cannot know what mind really is. We do not and cannot know, of that matter, what anything really is.
Aldous Huxley
#25. Do you ask what is the foundation of a sound mind? It is, not to find joy in useless things.
Seneca.
#26. Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?
Stephen King
#27. I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
Andy Rooney
#28. What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?
Paul Gascoigne
#29. I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder.
Michala Petri
#30. What is the meaning of Resurrection? ... is it not the exorcism of crippling unbelief, which renders us dead in life (Mark 9:22) rather than alive in our dying (8:35)?
Ched Myers
#31. The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
Tim Ferriss
#32. Compare constantly, lines and angles ... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?
William Morris Hunt
#33. What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
Terry Tempest Williams
#34. If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
Thomas Brooks
#35. What is the name of he who comes with eyes closed and fingers black, the one who draws the curtains back when dawn has come? 'Agha Thanatos' or just plain 'Death'? When will I know which is right?
Andre Alexis
#36. Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.
Rod Serling
#37. "What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
Anthony De Mello
#38. Haven't you enough money?'
For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.
Stella Gibbons
#39. I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.
Ben Shahn
#40. Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.
Swami Vivekananda
#42. What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?
Dick Costolo
#43. Whether you love Bach or would rather listen to a composition produced by Kulitta Software, Bach has and will continue to demand the we approach and answer the question, 'what is the art, science and language of music?
Anastasia Lily
#44. What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?
Charles Dickens
#45. Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#46. Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?
Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.
Toba Beta
#47. I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.
James Hetfield
#48. What is the historical context in which the Psalter was compiled? What difference do the psalm titles make to canonical interpretation? How does the total canonical context affect our understanding and appropriation of the Psalms?
Anonymous
#49. In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?
Joss Whedon
#50. Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?
Vera Wang
#51. I am left without answers. There are only questions I must answer for myself. What is the balance between home and the road? Hearth and horizon? Between what is and what could be?
Gloria Steinem
#52. Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life.
Seneca.
#53. 'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
Richard Dawkins
#54. It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
William Morris Hunt
#55. What is the statute of limitations on feeling guilty for cheating on a ghost?
Sarah Ockler
#56. I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
Yanni
#57. What is the matter with your master?" George asked Dawtie as they bounced along toward Potlurg.
"God knows, sir."
"What is the use of telling me that? I want you to tell me what YOU know."
"I don't know anything, sir.
George MacDonald
#58. If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.
Rajneesh
#59. It is so easy to point out what is the plain duty of others; it is so difficult frankly to acknowledge our own.
A.L.O.E.
#60. The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer
and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
William James
#61. I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.
Ani DiFranco
#62. But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?
Rajneesh
#63. I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso
#64. What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#65. What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope?
Richard Dawkins
#66. How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! But what is the good of expecting such a woman to reform?
John Collier
#67. What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
Leonard Sweet
#68. What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?
Amber Riley
#69. What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
James Salter
#70. I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
Bashar Al-Assad
#71. What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.
Lindsey Graham
#72. It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.
D.R. Hedge
#74. I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?
Isabel Allende
#75. What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?.
Yash Chopra
#76. Questions. Questions. Questions. Don't you ever learn that questions don't ever get answered unless I ask them?" he says. "Questions are the lazy man's way to try to learn, when the only way to learn is not to ask." "Then what is the only way to learn?" "To live, of course." He tilts his head.
Cameron Jace
#77. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Graham Chapman
#78. Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?
Donald Barthelme
#79. And so you ask a very good question. Why go on? Why even start off on such a path? What is to be gained from embarking on such a journey? Where is the incentive? What is the reason? The reason is ridiculously simple. There is nothing else to do.
Neale Donald Walsch
#80. What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.
Rumi
#81. Those who only says what is the truth, they're not worth listening to.
Jonas Jonasson
#82. And what is the sea?" asked Will.
"The sea!" cried the miller. "Lord help us all, it is the greatest thing God made!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#83. What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#84. The most serious Christians have always been well disposed towards me. I myself, an opponent of Christianity - de rigueur, am far from bearing a grudge against the individual for what is the fatality of millennia.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. What ails us? What is the name
Of our disease? Because we cannot utter it,
It is something we cannot conjure or cure.
It is the memory before this Paradise
That is the darkness of our soul.
Marne L. Kilates
#87. You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before?
John L'Heureux
#88. What is the modern mind?" asked Grant.
"Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive
and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within.
G.K. Chesterton
#89. Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).
Mary Roach
#90. Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#91. What is the purpose of these dolls?"
"To play with, of course."
"Do they look Ukrainian, with their plastic eyes and muddy features blended from every race on earth?
Paul Christensen
#92. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter
#93. What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.
Alexander Hamilton
#94. I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.
Robert Dessaix
#95. Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.
Mark Burnett
#96. What is the answer?
[ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
#97. How long have you been a Wiccan?'
'A what?'
'A pagan. A witch.'
'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'
Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?'
'Wizard has a Z'
He looked at me blankly.
'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.
Jim Butcher
#98. You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.
Thomas E. Mann
#99. What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#100. I don't know whom shall I ask this question!
What is the rationality behind killing and murdering innocent people for the sake of your God?
M.F. Moonzajer
