All Quotes

What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one.
‐‐ Carol W. Greider

What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.
‐‐ Lois Greenfield

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
‐‐ Andrew Young

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.
‐‐ Albert Reynolds

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
‐‐ Christopher Isherwood

What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.
‐‐ Bela Karolyi

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
‐‐ Joe Paterno

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.
‐‐ Barack Obama

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.
‐‐ Lewis B. Smedes

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
‐‐ Malcolm X

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

What is a farm but a mute gospel?
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
‐‐ Jay Inslee

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
‐‐ Frank Crane

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
‐‐ Mary Harris Jones

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
‐‐ Earle Brown

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

What is a hero without love for mankind.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
‐‐ Lion Feuchtwanger

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
‐‐ Robert Herrick

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
‐‐ Peter Nivio Zarlenga

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.
‐‐ Russell Smith

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.
‐‐ Neil Peart

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.
‐‐ Steve Martin

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
‐‐ Jean-Claude Van Damme

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
‐‐ Charlie Sheen

What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.
‐‐ Annie Besant

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
‐‐ Albert Camus

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
‐‐ Djuna Barnes

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
‐‐ Jacques Yves Cousteau

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.
‐‐ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a society without a heroic dimension?
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
‐‐ Oscar Hammerstein II

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
‐‐ Ray Charles

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!
‐‐ Marly Youmans

What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
‐‐ Adam Driver

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee