Answer Quotes

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.

Solutions are not the answer.

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

The answer is there is no answer.