Asking Quotes - Page 13

Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.

(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we shloud be asking ourselves all the time? 'What kind of person am I?

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much.

Instead of asking for help, I just dig in and do everything myself.

I have never been disappointed upon asking microorganisms for whatever I wanted.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.

The angels don't take offense if we keep asking over and over again.

The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.

Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.