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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Flannery O'Connor To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? W. H. Auden If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. Bertrand Russell Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. Bertrand Russell And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. James Joyce A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked. Jay London They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults. Jay London I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling. Jay London The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. George Eliot But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. Carol Burnett Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked. Marilyn vos Savant I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. Jim Valvano So much is asked of parents, and so little is given. Virginia Satir I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. Aleister Crowley When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say. Gerald R. Ford Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. Billy Connolly Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. Ovid If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. Billie Joe Armstrong Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. Bernard Baruch Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. Mignon McLaughlin |
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