Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tukey

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

John Piper

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

Pharrell Williams

I answer questions the best I can.

Penelope Tree

If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly

Paulo Coelho

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Marlee Matlin

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

Nicolas Cage

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.

Miranda July

The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

Mark Twain

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Marianne Williamson

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

Michael Caine

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

Merle Haggard

By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.

Mason Cooley

Folly always knows the answer.

Oscar Wilde

Only good questions deserve good answers.

Oscar Wilde

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Lucille Clifton

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

Michel de Montaigne

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

Michael K. Simpson

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

Henry Hyde

Let me be clear about this, ... We are not here today to decide whether or not to impeach Mr. Clinton. We are not here to pass judgment on anyone. We are here to ask and answer this one simple question: based upon what we now know, do we have a duty to look further, or to look away?

Jack Rio

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

Liam Fox

lied and broke the law and he must answer for that.

Shaun Cassidy

Lost' has changed the climate for shows that don't answer all your questions by the end of every episode.

Douglas Gresham

Many people ask, 'Why are they coming back?' The answer is that these books never went away,

Many of those questions are being discussed at ministerial level. You don't get answers to sensitive political questions during an exercise.

David Gregory

Scott, that's not the answer to the question. Come on. You're totally ducking and weaving here.

John Roberts

Senator, that's a question that I don't think can be answered in the abstract. You need to know the particular circumstances and exactly what the facts are and what the legislation would be like, because the argument on the other side -- and as a judge, I would obviously be in a position of considering both arguments: the argument for the legislature and the argument for the executive. The argument on the executive side will rely on authority as commander in chief and whatever authorities derive from that.

Orrin Hatch

Senators can ask any questions they want, but these justice nominees really don't have to answer them,

Booth Tarkington

Sensitive and even resentful, I tried to make my novel answer all this nonsense. A thing the novel tried to say was that in the matter of human character the people of such an out-of-the-way midland village were as estimable as any others anywhere. . . . This, in my sensitive young fervor, was my emotional tribute to the land of my birth.

Fred Thompson

Senator Biden told Justice Ginsburg when she was up there that she should not answer questions that she thought might compromise her in that way. So the shoe is on the other foot now. That's a part of the process; we're going through it. But all is well,

Barry Long

Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new, it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.

Jerry Pournelle

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

She's the one A-list celebrity without a publicist. That means she never answers anything.

She took the floor with poise and walked out and took care of business. Our bench has been the answer in conference play. Every single person contributes.