Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the kingdom of Gondor sank into ruin, the line of kings failed, the white tree withered and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.
- J R R Tolkien
I'm sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.
- Ann Aguirre
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
- Chris Van Allsburg
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
- Mary Astor
My mum always said there's a lot of presence in a doorway," he added, staring into one of the eyes.
A chill of air trickled down her spine, she could feel the eyes upon her, drawing her in, asking questions and tormenting her very being. "Really? How so?" asked Maggie, with interest.
Brick turned his head and presented a puzzled expression. "Well, cause that's where people come in
- Paul Baxter
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
- Thomas Berger
If everybody went around understanding each other without asking questions or speaking their mind, they'd never get anywhere.
- Haruki Murakami
And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
- Heston Blumenthal
Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?'
'Never. They're mother's milk to me.
- Tamora Pierce
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
- Nicholas Sparks
He's being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven," Thomas said. "I figured he couldn't jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions."
"That's an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man," I said.
"I'm planning to start making a pie in front of him."
"Nice."
"Thank you.
- Jim Butcher
Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines? You talk of religious mania! Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
- Bertrand Russell
In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
- Dick Cheney
Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions... He learns by watching.
- Ally Condie
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
- Dave Eggers
That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.
- Bret Easton Ellis
Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?
- Robin Epstein
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas?
Are you my Angel?
- Allen Ginsberg
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
- Allen Ginsberg
I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.
- Terry Gross
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.
- Alex Haley
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
- Karen Hughes
She didn't want to encourage me by asking questions. She didn't want me to go deeper into that other world. She worried she would lose her Matilda to Victorian England.
- Lloyd Jones
If you start looking up, they start asking questions.
- Susan Juby
This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.
- David Kay
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
- Anthony Kennedy
You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangereous. More dangereous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
- Primo Levi
A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.
- Stieg Larsson
I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
- Jim Lehrer
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.
- Malcolm X
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.
- Malcolm X
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
- Eddie Marsan
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
- Trevor Phillips
It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.
- Emily Procter
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
- Anne Rice
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
- Diane Sawyer
Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. And you actually saw people smoking in restuarants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out.
- David Sedaris
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
- Lillian Smith
- J R R Tolkien
I'm sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.
- Ann Aguirre
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
- Chris Van Allsburg
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
- Mary Astor
My mum always said there's a lot of presence in a doorway," he added, staring into one of the eyes.
A chill of air trickled down her spine, she could feel the eyes upon her, drawing her in, asking questions and tormenting her very being. "Really? How so?" asked Maggie, with interest.
Brick turned his head and presented a puzzled expression. "Well, cause that's where people come in
- Paul Baxter
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
- Thomas Berger
If everybody went around understanding each other without asking questions or speaking their mind, they'd never get anywhere.
- Haruki Murakami
And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
- Heston Blumenthal
Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?'
'Never. They're mother's milk to me.
- Tamora Pierce
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
- Nicholas Sparks
He's being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven," Thomas said. "I figured he couldn't jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions."
"That's an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man," I said.
"I'm planning to start making a pie in front of him."
"Nice."
"Thank you.
- Jim Butcher
Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines? You talk of religious mania! Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
- Bertrand Russell
In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
- Dick Cheney
Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions... He learns by watching.
- Ally Condie
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
- Dave Eggers
That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.
- Bret Easton Ellis
Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?
- Robin Epstein
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas?
Are you my Angel?
- Allen Ginsberg
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
- Allen Ginsberg
I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.
- Terry Gross
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.
- Alex Haley
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
- Karen Hughes
She didn't want to encourage me by asking questions. She didn't want me to go deeper into that other world. She worried she would lose her Matilda to Victorian England.
- Lloyd Jones
If you start looking up, they start asking questions.
- Susan Juby
This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.
- David Kay
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
- Anthony Kennedy
You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangereous. More dangereous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
- Primo Levi
A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.
- Stieg Larsson
I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
- Jim Lehrer
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.
- Malcolm X
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.
- Malcolm X
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
- Eddie Marsan
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
- Trevor Phillips
It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.
- Emily Procter
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
- Anne Rice
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
- Diane Sawyer
Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. And you actually saw people smoking in restuarants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out.
- David Sedaris
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
- Lillian Smith
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