Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilma Mankiller

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

Wim Wenders

Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

Zig Ziglar

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

Sarah Lacy

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

Will Thomas

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

Will Smith

Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.

Warren Buffett

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

William S. Burroughs

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

Samuel Beckett

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

Salman Rushdie

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

W. H. Auden

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

Roland Barthes

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

Rod McKuen

Everybody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand-new question.

Robin McKinley

...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

Robert Towne

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

Wendell Berry

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

Vladimir Nabokov

...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

William Penn

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

Robert Heller

No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

Richard Russo

...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

Robert De Niro

You don'’t always have to have the answer to everything.

Richard L. Evans

In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

Ruth Benedict

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Rosie O'Donnell

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

Roger von Oech

Look for the second right answer.

Sam Simon

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.