Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
Mason Cooley

Folly always knows the answer.
Mason Cooley

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
Doug Coupland

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Doug Coupland

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Judge Mills Lane

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Piers Anthony

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.
Mary Ann Mobley

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Bryant H. McGill

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
Len Deighton

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
J. M. Coetzee

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.
John Hume

Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
Ann Beattie

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
Helen Thomas

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?
John Thaw

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
Marlee Matlin

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.
Danny Elfman

Literature is the question minus the answer.
Roland Barthes