Answering Quotes
274 Answering quotes by 253 unique authors
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The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:…
— Paul Theroux
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I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was…
— Kelley Armstrong
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soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m.,…
— Charles Bukowski
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St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
— Dante Alighieri
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Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs…
— Douglas Coupland
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Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times…
— John Grogan
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The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.
— Rhonda Byrne
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I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this…
— Virginia Woolf
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I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering…
— William Goldman
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I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid…
— Jeff Lindsay
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Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine.…
— Slash
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It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the…
— Jacqueline Carey
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What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you…
— Mary Doria Russell
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Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right…
— Andy Rooney
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You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to…
— Charlaine Harris
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I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I…
— Patti Smith
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Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same…
— Robert Fulghum
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No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the…
— Connie Willis
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I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
— Albert Einstein
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Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.
— John Vaillant
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-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In…
— Suzanne Brockmann
Who Wrote These Answering Quotes
253 authors contributed a total of 274 Answering Quotes, led by these top contributors: