Quotes with asking

  • Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.
  • To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
  • Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
  • 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.
  • Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
  • When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
  • I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
  • Are you expecting God to fill your needs? Are you asking him to do so - regularly, earnestly and persistently?
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mandell Creighton The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
    Mandell Creighton
    British historian and bishop (1843 - 1901)
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Carrie Fisher People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Lester Bangs The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Lillian Smith When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Mary Daly A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
    Mary Daly
    American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian (1928 - 2010)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Babe Ruth After all, there's only one answer 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 Ruths Own Book of Baseball
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bart Stupak All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Malcolm X An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bill Hybels Are you expecting God to fill your needs? Are you asking him to do so - regularly, earnestly and persistently?
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Britney Spears As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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