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LAURELL K. HAMILTON You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.
ETHEL ROSENBERG The short answer is, I don't know. Nobody knows. The reason for that is, we don't have enough data o...
ANDREW LO I can't answer that question. It's not for me to answer. I don't call the plays.
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON The Answer is answer of another question beyond that question.
DEYTH BANGER Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer...
HARPER LEE I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
WOODY ALLEN I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer
WOODY ALLEN That is indeed the burning question, I have no ready answer to that.
HANS HOLTHUIS That's a good question. I wish I knew the right answer to that.
GLENN PLUM Well, Senator, I can't answer that question in the abstract,
JOHN ROBERTS I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer
is obvious.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'm not a doctor. I can't answer that question.
JAMES MYART What do I want?
The answer to that question does not exist.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Is she still representing the brand? Good question, I can't answer that.
CHRISTIAN DIOR So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even...
NED VIZZINI Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a no...
MIKE JUDGE Unfortunately ,the answer to that question is yes.
CATHERINE LEE It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to...
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to...
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
YOGI BERRA I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question
YOGI BERRA The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important tha...
RICHARD DAWKINS I really don't want to answer that question one way or another,
BOB AYERS INFINITY is the answer to any question, but it cannot answer any question.
EPHDAN Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN Pretend I asked, now answer the question...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Oh." He sat in confused silence for a few seconds. "Can I ask you a very serious question?"
"I ...
KATIE ALENDER I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
YOGI BERRA If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq a...
SADDAM HUSSEIN They didn't vote for it. I don't know. You asked me one question, and I don't know the answer.
ANG LEE Let me point out that the refusal to answer a question can be as illuminating as an answer.
FRANK SEANEZ You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN You can't the answer if you don't know the question.
JOSé BRAULIO BATISTA MENDOZA If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer it
YOGI BERRA I was one of the first to bring up that question, and I still haven't gotten an answer.
DAVID PELLETIER People are looking for an answer, and I know that Answer is Jesus Christ.
EVA BURROWS That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am...
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ARLEN SPECTER To every answer you can find a new question
YIDDISH PROVERB Maybe the answer is that there isn't one.
Maybe the answer is that there isn't JUST
one.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I'd rather live with the answer than die with the question.
PLEASEFINDTHIS What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?
LAURA KELLY That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
HAL SUTTON I want to call somebody to get some advice on whether I should answer this question,
JOYCE CHEN It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
DECOUVERTES It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
EUGENE IONESCO Call the priest or you'd have to call the athletic director. I'd like to know the answer to that que...
BOB SCHULER Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usua...
SIMON SINEK That is the burning question, and I have no ready answer to that. The prison pharmacy has never stoc...
HANS HOLTHUIS Sex isn't the answer. Sex is the question, yes is the answer.
AJ MCLEAN If the PM wants to answer a different question, thats fine, and thats a good answer to a differe...
GARY ACKERMAN I can answer the first question now with confidence: Yes!
MASAFUMI MIURA If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.
JOHN MCPHEE What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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JAY NIXON I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'...
CHARLES MONROE SCHULZ I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions,...
LARRY KING I generally will answer any question about anything.
DANNY MASTERSON Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.
— Rhett
ROWENA CHERRY When it comes to what you really want in life. Dont take no for an answer. Take no for a question an...
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
ERIK NAGGUM. As with all of these scandals, the longer it takes them to answer the question, the more interest th...
MASSIE RITSCH Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'...
CATE BLANCHETT For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I go...
KIM NOVAK But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the...
SáNDOR MáRAI What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEIN We don't know the answer to that question. That's one of the things investigators are looking into, ...
BRIAN JONES If there's a stated benchmark and if you're the doctor of a patient (who has to wait) beyond that be...
ALAN HUDSON It is not every question that deserves an answer.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is not every question that deserves an answer.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) My question is: If a kid raises a question in class, what do I do? Do I just say, 'Sorry, I can't an...
JAMES CAMPBELL I don't know the answer to that. We just put our faith in God.
KAYDEE SMITH That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent a...
JACOB BRONOWSKI That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinen...
, THE ASCENT OF MAN, 1973 If you want to assume that, that's fine. You can badger me. That's OK. I don't have to answer [the q...
JOE MADDON I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die ...
JOAN BAEZ We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we...
DESMOND MORRIS Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vague...
CATE BLANCHETT In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you must possess decisiveness
SUNDAY ADELAJA The state doesn't know the answer. I know people don't want to hear that, but we just don't know.
LEA STOKES Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.
DEREK LANDY And then I ask a question I already know the answer to... Like looking at who I am but can become ex...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just go...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Raising right question is awakening; getting its answer is stimulating; But, nothing better than the...
ANUJ SOMANY By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate...
WALTER GILBERT The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... It is a hypothetical question. I don't answer hypothetical questions.
DANIEL VASELLA The question is where do we go from here? The answer is -- life.
CAMERON CROWE Look for the answer inside your question.
RUMI Never answer a hypothetical question
MOSHE ARENS Never answer a question from a farmer.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non...
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