Answer Quotes - page 16

Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea... No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt. (Rick Riordan)
How does it taste?” Carter wondered. Zia smiled. "Stick out your tongue.” To answer Carter's question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires. "Ugh.” I spit a blue gob of "order and harmony” into the fountain. View quote
Rick Riordan
the answer to every problem involved penguins. View quote
Rick Riordan
More minions!” he shouted. "Come to me!” That couldn't be good. Another round of giant crocs and we'd be dead. Why don't we get minions? I complained to Horus, but he didn't answer. View quote
Rick Riordan
But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape. View quote
Rob Sheffield
One of the difficulties that confronts anyone who attempts to answer the question, "Who rules in a pluralist democracy?" is the ambiguous relationship of leaders to citizens. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer. View quote
Roger Moore
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. View quote
Russell Hoban
How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer. View quote
C.K. Prahalad
But almost as if presenting the image of some ironic answer, the wings flapped against a sudden, high, unfelt breeze, and the beast, here shorn of all fables, rose and rose-for a while-under the night. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
‘The problem you have put me will remain a problem till the globe of the world and the globe of the sun meet in their common center and the one consumes the other. This answer I have proposed, however, humanity will know and forget, know and forget, know and forget again. And that knowing and forgetting will approximate the peaks and depths of civilization as closely as the quotient of your tosses approximates that number which, rationally, we know is not there.' (Samuel R. Delany)
My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl. View quote
Sarah Zettel
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. View quote
Sarah Zettel
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom. View quote
Tim Robbins
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned. View quote
Jose Bergamin
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary) Is this one of those questions that if I don't answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now you know I'm a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I'll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
You can be known as Val or Babycakes.” His gaze darkened. "My name is Valerius and I will not answer to Val.” She shrugged. "Fine then, Babycakes, have it your way. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why can't you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf) Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth. View quote
Eartha Kitt