Asking Quotes

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

The only thing was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic that was in the world.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior.

The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

Life, nature and God always answer, 'Yes,' to you. What are you asking for?

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

I'm personally asking each and every single Boston resident to look after their neighbor.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.

There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust Him. What do you say we take God up on His offer?

Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did, in fact, they admired it.

Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it.

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living.

Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.