Asks Quote by Stanley Fish Download Open image “Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?” — Stanley Fish ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asks Sentences
“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never—and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself. They will make the offer and they… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Why is there something, rather than nothing?” is a question that anyone can ask.” — J Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels?” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
“I didn't ask anything—I hadn't the words. Instead I spoke the smallest one—the one I should have used more in my short and foolish… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Can I ask you something? He added after a moment. 'yes,' said Shmuel. Bruno thought about it. He wanted to phrase the question just… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“I have so many questions, but I know better than to ask many of them. I can anticipate how I might hurt, or offend,… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a God that wouldst be understood literally and… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“In his great book How to Do Things with Words (1962), J.L. Austin considers the apparently simple sentence "France is hexagonal." He asks if… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
