All Quotes

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

Is the cinema more important than life?
‐‐ Francois Truffaut

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Is the human race a universal constructor?
‐‐ David Deutsch

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.
‐‐ Steven Hatfill

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
‐‐ David R. Brower

Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, 'I remember, I remember the house where I was born.' I don't even know what mine looked like!
‐‐ Spike Milligan

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
‐‐ Daniel Okrent

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
‐‐ Andrew Greeley

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?
‐‐ Sean Hannity

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
‐‐ Chester W. Nimitz

Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Is the sky falling? No. It's maybe drooping a bit.
‐‐ Burton Richter

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
‐‐ Joseph Campbell

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.
‐‐ Montel Williams

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
‐‐ A. A. Milne

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

Is there a downside to eating well and getting in shape?
‐‐ Heidi Murkoff

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?
‐‐ Joel C. Rosenberg

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
‐‐ Bashar al-Assad

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.
‐‐ James E. Rogers

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.
‐‐ Luca Parmitano

Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
‐‐ James Buchan

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?
‐‐ Carter Glass

Is there any way to safeguard and acquire wealth? Yes, there is one sure way: namely, never to covet the wealth of another.
‐‐ Thiruvalluvar

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
‐‐ Chris Christie

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.
‐‐ Gerry Spence

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.
‐‐ John Sculley

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
‐‐ Voltaire

Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.
‐‐ Thomas P.M. Barnett

Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?
‐‐ Michelle Williams

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
‐‐ Greta Garbo

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?
‐‐ Richard Jefferies

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
‐‐ Spike Milligan