The Answers Quotes

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

Ask questions if you really want to know the answers.

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love?

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

Love is the answer to any sort of healing.

Who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs?" I said, "Come on then, they are down here." He said, "Tallulah, the answer to who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs is... me!!!!

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.

This be OK?' I asked, innocently. 'You want me to have no skin left?' You rolled your eyes. Actually, don't answer that one.

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

The excitement that science possess is its ability to answer the big questions.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

Roberta Jacobson is in charge of a department within the State Department with which, on other occasions, I have had problems with regarding the answers they gave me.

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything.'

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.

As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.