“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”

— W.C. Fields

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actor 1880–1946

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

“You ain't got the answers Sway!”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

In response to Sway suggesting he start a clothing company on his own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c&t=17m20s

“Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."”

Mark Twain book Pudd'nhead Wilson

Following the Equator (1897)
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XII

“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“What the feck?” Dani snapped when I answered. “You sleep like the fecking dead up there! I been calling you for five fecking minutes!”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

“What you are is a question only you can answer.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“Commodore Marlin: My friend, I ask you a plain civil question; will you give me a plain, civil answer?
Sam Slick: Thinks to myself, Commodore, the question is civil enough, but you ain't civil, and your manner ain't civil.”

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian-British politician, judge, and author

Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented, Volumen 1 https://archive.org/details/samslickswisesaw00haliuoft (1853), p. 185, Hurst and Blackett.

“If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Session 340, Page 25
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”

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