Famous Quotes & Sayings

The question is now: Where have those militants gone? There's no clear answer to that,

Jean Fritz

The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.

Richard Butler

The proposal for national missile defense, as articulated now, is the wrong answer to the right question. The right question is: what do we do about rogue states like Saddam's Iraq?

We know the answer as to why there was confusion -- because several people from the (mining) company called family members to report the good news before they were supposed to.

Richard Dean Anderson

But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food.

Preston Brooks

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.

Raymond Felton

We were staying in the game, but when (Jefferson) got hot, he spread the lead. They took it up to 15 and 18. We'd cut it back down but he'd come down and hit two big threes. He had it going tonight. We had no answer for him. We played great defense, and he still was hitting it.

We didn't have any answer for their defense in the second half. It felt like they had eight guys out on the court guarding us.

Danny Baker

We didn't have an answer for her. She was the heart and soul of their team. They never felt out of a game because they had her.

We didn't have an answer for both of them.

The database management companies have a tremendous asset in that they are hosting the customer data, which answer a lot of the questions of where and how to advertise. I think that's why this industry is growing as quickly as it is.

David Jones

The decision to proceed with the charges was made solely by the SFO. We have undertaken a detailed and comprehensive investigation and believe that the defendants should answer the charges.

The decision brings us one step closer to the day when Pinochet will have to answer to his victims,

You are left grappling for answers and trying to figure it out. What was she thinking?

We wanted to make sure all questions federal highway had were answered and also (that) we could answer questions proposed to us by contractors.

We're very, very young. And we have a lot of questions to answer from last year.

Phillip E. Johnson

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

Enid Bagnold

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

Igor Ivanov

who should give a clear answer to the question of whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction or not.

The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe - pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man.

Richard Ben-Veniste

But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer.

Robert Ballard

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Roger Clemens

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.

Sherrod Brown

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly.

Daniel Tosh

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

David Levithan

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

David Levithan

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Daisy Donovan

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

Condoleezza Rice

First, I wanted to answer the question I'm most frequently asked: "How did you become who you are?" Well, you had to know John and Angelena Rice.

Every time that you try to do something to hurt him, (Dunn) has got an answer with something that he is going to do. He plays a high-pressure defense where he puts a lot of pressure on the quarterback, and they try to put a lot of pressure on the offensive line as far as assignments are concerned. On top of that, the athletes that he has running around in that scheme right now make them pretty darn good defensively.

Tess Gerritsen

Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere. I read the newspapers voraciously, so I know what's going on in real crime. I pay attention to the strange stories people tell me, and I also read a lot of scientific and forensic journals.