Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent.” “New Orleans.” “What a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and… — Laurent A. Daloz Copy Share Image
[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
The person... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to… — Harvey Jackins Copy Share Image
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . .… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
“In the end, when all the trappings of empire are stripped away, it is every man for himself. 1528” — Panfilo de Navaez Copy Share Image
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters,… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
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