All Quotes

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?
‐‐ Steven Wright

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
‐‐ Sitting Bull

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
‐‐ Patch Adams

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
‐‐ Patrick Henry

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
‐‐ Karl Ove Knausgaard

Is making a movie true love if you're a creative person? It could be. But in my world, the importance of being a father and having kids and knowing that connection is true love. Making a movie is love.
‐‐ Robert Stromberg

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.
‐‐ Henry Spencer

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?
‐‐ Courteney Cox

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.
‐‐ Anthony Weiner

Is Mitt Romney a bully? And the answer is, no... He does not have a vicious bone in his body.
‐‐ Kerry Healey

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.
‐‐ Jim Thome

Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.
‐‐ Kurt Busch

Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?
‐‐ Jules Verne

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
‐‐ Jane Austen

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
‐‐ Frederic Bastiat

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
‐‐ Angela Carter

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?
‐‐ Harry Anderson

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

Is Paris Hilton even an actress? I'm thinking no.
‐‐ Tiffany Dupont

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.
‐‐ James Gleick

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
‐‐ Margaret Carlson

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be considered a tea party candidate.
‐‐ Tim Scott

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
‐‐ Beau Willimon

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
‐‐ John McAfee

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
‐‐ Hayao Miyazaki

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
‐‐ Robin Wright

Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping?
‐‐ Jessica Simpson

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?
‐‐ Brad Renfro

Is that your final answer?
‐‐ Regis Philbin

Is that your final answer? Here in New York garbage men, bus drivers, taxi cab drivers, bus drivers, whoever, you know, people just yell it out to me. So that was a lot of fun.
‐‐ Regis Philbin

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
‐‐ Tom Paulin

Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
‐‐ Fabrice Grinda

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien