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“I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.”

“Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.”

Men Sex Asking Forks Sex Relationships Chopsticks

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?”

Art Matter Stories Form Literature Pieces Alive Asking Life And Death Halls Concerts Sculpture

Author:Mavis Gallant

“If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Political Politician Speech Asking Sentences Impression Articles Jerk

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.”

People Play Language Football Baseball Asking Latin Conform Grammar English Language English Grammar Infinitive

Author:Bill Bryson

“The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.”

Faces England Asking Dinner Insulting Refrain Upper Class Old Money

Author:Margaret Halsey

“What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.”

Ifs Firsts Chance Forever Sky Return Asking Simplicity Spending Take Me Goodwill

Book:Walt Whitman's

Source: Walt Whitman's

“I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being a kid. Instead, the goal here is to empower parents instead of undermining them as they try to make healthier choices for their families.”

Knows Trying Kids Choices Fun Parent Goal Childhood Treats Asking Empowering Undermining Being A Kid Child Obesity

Author:Michelle Obama

“I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.”

Thinking Way Different Reason Helping Grows Economy Growing Up Issues Environment Too Much Seeing Asking Granted Asking Why

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.”

Process Asking Admitting Accelerate Wrongdoing Asking For Forgiveness

Book:God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You

Source: God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You

“And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.”

Years Ends Reason Happens Would Be Return Asking Contracts New Zealand Indictment

Author:Tony Greig

“Many, many of you have written to me asking the following question: 'Dave, have their been any new advancements in the field of artificial falcon insemination, and could these developments be used to improve the American electoral process?'”

Used Process Written Fields Development Humorous Asking Profound Following Insane Artificial Advancement Dave Falcon Electoral Process

Author:Dave Barry

“One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.”

Moving Attitude Asking Entrepreneur Why Not Surround Dreamer Contagious Asking Why

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band”

Ifs Young Music Band Asking Finished Helpless

Author:David Crosby

“Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.”

Creativity Creative Impossible Bird Asking

Author:Eric Jerome Dickey

“The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.”

Thinking Wells Social Identity Asking Wine Fake Fraud Toys Femininity Manufacturing Undone Drinkers New Toys

Book:Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

Source: Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

“The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.”

Men Has Beens Fall Sound Dark Simple Existence Prove Evidence Difficulty Asking Piano Atoms Falling Down Indirect

Author:Carl David Anderson

“I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.”

People Littles Hard Kids Process Hard Work Asking Tired Hearing Miles Seats Little Kid I'm Tired Markers

Author:Nick Saban

“Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that survival instinct by constantly asking ourselves, ‘How can I use my life’s energy to benefit all living beings?”

Use Care Energy Benefits Survival Asking Instinct Generosity Revolutionary Loved Ones Our Relationship Survival Instinct

Author:Noah Levine

“I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? So in speaking to our football team earlier in the year, I said, 'Why not us? Why can't we be there?'”

Knows Years Said Remember Team Football Dad Asking My Dad Stuck Why Not One Time Bowls Super Bowl Football Team

Author:Russell Wilson

“X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do”

Ifs Matter Team Basketball Draws Asking Coaches Damn Nba

Author:Hubie Brown

“Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!”

Growth Transformation Asking Curiosity Individuation

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.”

Opportunity Chance Fool Advantage Asking Curiosity Gambling Take A Chance Dams

Author:Clarence Birdseye

“Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.”

“Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another”

Heart Asking

Book:Self-realization

Source: Self-realization

“Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.”

People Way Doe Use Government Courses Asks Decision Pay Share Fairs Asking Contribution Internals Elites Revenue Another Way Fair Share Preemption

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.”

Men Should Desire Realizing Opinion Thousand Ten Authority Worship Asking Worship Service Questionnaires

Author:Paul Washer

“Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'”

Want Needs Done Asks Differences Leader Successful Asking Making A Difference Successful Leaders

Author:Peter Drucker

“I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system.”

Ifs Thinking Should Firsts Wells Christian Values Vote Asking Response Conservative Consistent Value Systems

Author:Tim Scott

“Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.”

Should Progress Perfection Asking Not Perfect Progress Not Perfection

Author:Julia Cameron

“All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.”

Ifs Want Next Actors Growing Asking

Author:Willem Dafoe

“Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.”

Book Feelings Wanted Mines Asking Library Permission

Author:Rita Dove

“You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!”

Ifs World Want Cities Millions Goes On Band Asking Boards Manchester Rolls Royce Manchester City

Author:Noel Gallagher

“You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way.”

Way Needs Has Beens Done Suffering Found Events Ought Asking Phrases Stirring Wrong Way Great Events

Author:Steven Brust

“I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.”

Given Acceptance Asking Floats Given Up Asking Questions Tsunami

Author:Terry Gilliam

“How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.”

Knows Littles I Can Kids Asking Ice Cream Ice Cream Little Kid

Author:Jimmie Johnson

“I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.”

Ifs World Has Beens Made Problem Father Black Views Ready Asking Racist Thinker Brainwashed Asking Why Problem Solvers Irrepressible Deep Thinker

Book:What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace

Source: What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace

“Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.”

“At the end of the day, you can decide whether you want to be an employee with a great attendance record, getting promoted to ever better titles and working on interesting projects - or whether you want to attempt to do something spectacular - this be or do should be a question you never stop asking yourself - for the next 20 years, and beyond.”

Want Should Years Ends Next Interesting Records Projects Asking Titles Employee The End Of The Day Spectacular Attendance

Author:Steve Blank

“The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.”

Ifs Figures Photography Clothes Asking Cameras Photograph Flesh

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.”

People Ifs Said Jesus Stuff Asking What If Restless

Author:Shane Claiborne

“I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it.”

Needs Looks Has Beens Young Guy Asks Realizing Situation Roles Asking Starting Handle Ask Me Look Up Leadership Roles Older Guys

Author:Adrian Peterson

“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.”

Thinking Answers Asking Asking Questions

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.”

Thinking Giving Leadership Leader Seeing Organization Asking Great Leader Great Organizations

Book:Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action

Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action

“Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.”

Firsts Asks Understanding Listening Asking Words Questioning Questions Asked Understanding Why

Author:Simon Sinek

“Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.”

Waiting Letters Asking Phones Planning Keep Going Mentor Going Out Phone Calls Asking Questions Fax Wait For Me

Author:Denis Waitley

“The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.”

Ifs Humans Today Answers Emotion Quality Tomorrow Asking Quality Of Life

Author:Lester Bangs

“The socialism I believe in isn't really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other, everyone helping each other, and everyone having a share of the rewards at the end of the day. That might be asking a lot, but it's the way I see football and the way I see life.”

“I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.”

Ifs Giving Said Past Names Belief Bits Emotion Scientist Asking Angry Driven Rage Debate Closing Unthinkable Synchronicity Pissed Off Criticise Sceptic Homeopathy Closing Down Broadsheet

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.”

People Ifs Want Mean Funny Song Asks Work Music Fame Musician Asking Ask Me Songwriting Pie Funny Music Hidden Meaning American Pie Passive Income

Author:Don McLean

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