“Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.”
“He had nowhere to look for answers, and he was tired of asking questions.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 11 (p. 341)
As quoted in The Writer's Quotation Book : A Literary Companion (1980) by James Charlton, p. 44
From "President Addresses the Nation in Prime Time Press Conference" http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040413-20.html, Washington, D.C., on why the President and the Vice President insisted on appearing together before the 9/11 Commission, rather than separately. (April 13, 2004)
2000s, 2004
Recalling being invited to appear on French TV on what she described as “a terrifying serious program about books”. nydailynews.com http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/popular-irish-author-maeve-binchy-dies-72-article-1.1125516?localLinksEnabled=false
“To answer your question, you want me because I'm made of awesome.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 101.
Yogiisms
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
“I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.”
Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
