#asking

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#dancing #did #done #following #future

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#asking #better #exercise #kids #practice

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. ↗

— Brian Greene

#answers #asking #boldness #deep #flexibility

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#administrators #advice #any #as far as #asking

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#always #am #asking #every #i

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#always #ask #asking #church #churches

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination. ↗

— Eddie Marsan

#acting #asking #asking questions #great #hard

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses. ↗

— Barbara McClintock

#having #might #much #over #person

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. ↗

— George William Norris

#american #american lives #asking #certain #congress

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#asking #asking questions #been #i #ken