Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

Frank Herbert

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Frank Herbert

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Jim Butcher

You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

Honore de Balzac

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Mitch Daniels

He can answer questions and point out how very much better the toll road will be in their hands, and how people's legitimate questions do have good answers.

Heading into camp, I know there were a of questions. But I think we answered a lot of them. I think guys are a lot more optimistic based on how things have gone so far, what we've seen. I think we're starting to gel.

John Schuerholz

He really answered the call. The job was up for grabs, with a lot of competition, and he just rose up and took it.

Governor Rell will not move forward with a nomination for chief justice until she is satisfied that all questions regarding the conduct of individual Supreme Court justices have been answered and all concerns addressed. She expects that these answers will come through the Judiciary Committee, the Judicial Review Board and the Supreme Court itself.

David Blunkett

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

Isaac Marion

She is everything. And if she is everything, maybe that's answer enough.

Isaac Asimov

You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.

Francis Schaeffer

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

Francis Schaeffer

Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

Homer

I want answers now or I want them eventually!

Cherie Blair

If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that's different; that is my - they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.

If I can find something with a pulse willing to share my bed, why would I narrow the field of options by discriminating on the basis of gender, species or degree of relative consciousness? So, the answer to your question is, "yes", I let my dog on the bed.

James Blake

If I couldn't play tennis again, am I still going to be happy going back to school, maybe going to business school, doing whatever else I could do? ... Would I be able to be happy if my eye never came back to normal and I couldn't really be athletic at all the rest of my life? Could I find a way to still be happy? All those I tried to answer yes.

James Atlas

If I could answer a critic, people like James Shapiro in the New York Times say that I extrapolate the life too directly and explicitly from the work,

If I could say to him, 'No, you cannot drink,' and know he wouldn't, that would be a wonderful situation. And it would be the answer to everything. But that's just not realistic. These kids do drink.

If he catches that ball, we probably win 3-0. Paul knows he should have caught that ball. I just asked him if he was mentally prepared to come up and hit the next inning - and there was only one answer to that.

If he has a question, I'll answer it. But ... he's trying to take my job. I'm not going to be mean to the kid, but I'm not going to tell him my secrets, either.

H. L. Mencken

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

Charles Schumer

If he (Roberts) refuses to answer questions on decided cases, ... I'm going to need a lot more time to try to get to the bottom of who he is.

I felt they wouldn't have answers for us inside. Once (McGivney and Ervin) got in foul trouble we had to slow it down a bit.

If he can answer questions about being a flip-flopper, show that he will be strong fighting terrorism, show he has a plan and will stick to it -- more than any sound-bite or witticism, that could make a difference in this election,

I felt the door was open for us to win. We answered back with pretty much the same mistakes we've been making all year long.

Bill Clinton

If ever there was a doubt about the importance of exercising the most fundamental right of citizenship, it was clearly answered by the first presidential election of the 21st century.

Jean Todt

If Ferrari needed him and found him available, the answer is yes. He's very strong, he never complains, he doesn't blame others if he loses.

Suzy Menkes

If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is no longer a time gap between when a small segment of fashion-conscious people pick up a trend and when it is all over the sidewalks.

If I had that answer he wouldn't go out there and do that, I wish I knew,