Asking Quotes
2209 quotes by 1723 authors
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Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off…
— John Flanagan
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I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in…
— Harlan Coben
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What made you so unforgiving? (Simone) Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard…
— Ally Carter
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Look, this isn’t The Mummy. It’s not like a teenaged girl’s diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It’s just the story of her innocuous…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they were…
— J R Ward
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So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell…
— Warren Ellis
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Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
— Virginia Woolf
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She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja…
— Tamora Pierce
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We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to…
— Virginia Woolf
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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is…
— Christopher Hitchens
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And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of…
— Karen Marie Moning
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That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in…
— Markus Zusak
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Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
— Margaret Mitchell
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And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer…
— John Green
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining…
— Samuel Beckett
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People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?
— Ysabeau S. Wilce
Who Wrote These Asking Quotes
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