Asking famous quotes

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
-- Aaron Copland

#Music #Would Be #Asking

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
-- Aaron Levie

#Three #Asking #Brilliant

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.
-- Abigail Breslin

#People #Robots #Asking

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Asking #Favors #Way

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
-- Agnes Smedley

#Circles #Leader #Asking

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'
-- Aimee Mullins

#Amputees #Asking #Knees

I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.
-- Al Gore

#Scary #Asking #Earth

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
-- Alain de Botton

#Book #Asking #Kind

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
-- Alan Alda

#Asking #Good Enough #Enough

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
-- Alan Alda

#Asking #Steps #Good Enough

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is
-- Alan Moore

#Men #Asking #Paradox

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.
-- Alan Patricof

#Jobs #Asking #Way

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
-- Albert Camus

#Inspirational #Asking #Answers

If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'
-- Alex Ferguson

#Inspirational #Player #Asking

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.
-- Alice Evans

#Going Out #Asking #Photographer

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.
-- Allison Williams

#People #Asking #Worst

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?
-- Amanda Hocking

#Cutting #Asking #Permission

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Inspirational #Asking #Trouble

The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.
-- Amelie Mauresmo

#Feelings #Cards #Asking

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
-- Amy Chua

#Stress #Asking #Authority

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
-- Amy Lowell

#Cancer #Progress #Asking

I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do. Instead of asking students to 'declare their major' we should ask students to 'list what they will do anything to avoid.' It just makes a lot more sense.
-- Amy Poehler

#Thinking #People #Asking

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Asking #Might #Annoying

Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?
-- Amy Waldman

#Home #Worry #Asking

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
-- Angela Merkel

#Groups #Asking #Enthusiasm

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
-- Ann Brashares

#Mistake #Sacrifice #Asking

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
-- Ann Bridge

#Education #Culture #Asking

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,
-- Anne Carson

#Fashion #Asking #Realizing

I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he was really like. I was hoping that”—he smiled wistfully—“you would recognize me.
-- Anne Fortier

#Sorry #Asking #I Am Sorry

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
-- Anne Lamott

#Asking #Alive #Becoming

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.
-- Anne Roe

#Science #Asking #Answers

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#Tired #Archives #Asking

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.
-- Antoine Fuqua

#Asking #Shrines #Bullets

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
-- Antoinette Bosco

#Cake #Giving #Asking

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.
-- Aprilynne Pike

#Love #Forever #Asking

You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.
-- Archie Panjabi

#People #Asking #Way

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!
-- Avril Lavigne

#People #Asking #Want

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!
-- Babe Ruth

#Advice #Asking #Answers

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
-- Banksy

#Business #Asking #World

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#America #People #Asking

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves." Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Eye #Curves #Asking

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Chinese #Asking #Rate

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
-- Ben Stein

#Children #Asking #Stranger

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#People #Asking #Firsts

Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.
-- Betty White

#Retirement #Dirty #Asking

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.
-- Bill Bryson

#Animal #Pigs #Asking

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling
-- Bill Buxton

#Sketching #Asking #Fundamentals

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
-- Bill James

#Asking Questions #Knowing #Asking

Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?
-- Bill Joy

#Technology #Asking #Development

You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.
-- Bill W.

#Simplicity #Enlightenment #Asking

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
-- Bjork

#Iceland #People #Asking

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.
-- Bob Beckel

#Rabbits #Asking #Vote

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
-- Bob Goff

#People #Asking #Answers

We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
-- Bob Goff

#Heart #Asking #Opinion

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
-- Branford Marsalis

#America #Musical #Asking

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.
-- Brian Chesky

#Talking #Asking #Want

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.
-- Brian Chesky

#Office #Asking #Want

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
-- Brian Greene

#Asking #Answers #May

When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all.
-- Brian Jett

#Asking #Done #Unselfish Acts

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.
-- Brian Lamb

#Hbo #Air #Asking

Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.
-- Brian Tracy

#Asking Questions #Asking #Selling

You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?
-- Brian Tracy

#Ideas #Judging #Asking

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.
-- Bridget of Sweden

#Grace #Asking #Enmity

That's a question mark everyone's asking
-- Bruce Grobbelaar

#Soccer #Asking #Mark

You don't consume craft beers in great quantities just to get loaded; you consume craft beers because you like the taste of the beer. People are asking for beer based on what they're eating, which is quite a change from the way it was.
-- Bruce McDonald

#Beer #People #Asking

There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.
-- Brunonia Barry

#Asking #Answers #Easy

There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
-- Bryan Adams

#God #Real #Asking

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie

#Kids #Needs #Asking

All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
-- Burt Reynolds

#Land #Asking #Actors

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!
-- C. B. Cebulski

#Writing #Asking #Accepting

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Wisdom #Important #Asking

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best
-- C. S. Lewis

#Doors #Asking #Please

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?
-- Caitlin Moran

#Asking #Television #Want

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
-- Candace Cameron

#Thinking #Heaven #Asking

I said to the players before the start, 'Just go out and give it 100 per cent. I am not asking for any more than that'.
-- Carlton Palmer

#Player #Giving #Asking

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.
-- Casey Wilson

#Women #Asking #Schedules

But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.
-- Cate Tiernan

#Heart #Loving Someone #Asking

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.
-- Catherine Booth

#Grumbling #Asking #Want

Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.
-- Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

#Eye #Listening #Asking

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Prayer #Names #Asking

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
-- Charlie Kaufman

#People #Mad #Asking

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
-- Chester Bennington

#Sound #Looks #Asking

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Asking #Answers #Want

I see a lot of that on Tumblr - people asking advice from people they don't know. That's so odd to me. Asking an anonymous person for advice seems very odd.
-- Chris Black

#People #Advice #Asking

Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?'
-- Chris Colfer

#Asking #Disneyland

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.
-- Christopher Lee

#Would Be #Asking #Actors

Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?
-- Christopher Pike

#Asking #Showers

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
-- Chuck D

#Daughter #Artist #Asking

There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.
-- Chuck Hagel

#Thinking #Important #Asking

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Asking #Pacs #Folks

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.
-- Claude Monet

#Lying #Would Be #Asking

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
-- Clifford Geertz

#People #Different #Asking

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'
-- Courteney Cox

#Asking #Want #Make Me Happy

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Receiving #Asking

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.
-- Cupcake Brown

#Asking

Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can I get my own way?' These two questions mark us throughout life, and the answers we receive set the course for how we live.
-- Dan B. Allender

#Children #Two #Asking

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.
-- Daniel Craig

#Profound #Asking #Answers

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.
-- Daniel Dennett

#People #Asking #Way

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?
-- Daniel J. King

#White #Sides #Asking

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Asking #Strange