Question Quotes
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Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
Don Yaeger
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People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?
John Simon
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility.
Aldo Leopold
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I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.
Lisa Cholodenko
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
Sarah Vowell
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It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
Antoine Fuqua
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My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'
Bradford Dillman
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It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.
Peter Bofinger
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Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.
Don Nickles
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I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Carol Gilligan
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It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
Chuck Klosterman
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There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.
Frank Pierson
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I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the 'MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.'
Kresley Cole
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To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?
Christopher Hitchens
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Most people aren't lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology is coming into our lives and starting to infuse our lives. And we question whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Alan Taylor
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The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.
Edward Felten
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The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
Apollonius of Tyana
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Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.
Ahmed Zewail
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I do remember seeing Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar, one of those. It was a liberation theology venue. Anything radical seemed to be accepted there. I definitely picked up the idea there that you should question authority.
Ian MacKaye
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But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.
Galileo Galilei
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
John Ruskin
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If the question is still asked why National Socialism combats the Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, the answer can only be, because National Socialism wishes to establish a real community of the people. Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien race to impose itself upon our working people as their leaders.
Adolf Hitler
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There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.
Marc Laidlaw
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I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.
Martin Luther King, Jr.