Ask Me Quotes

• Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

  Heinrich Heine

  Literature, Asks

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• But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Thinking, Hair

  "My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel".

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

  Rainn Wilson

  Father, Knows, Asks

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• People ask me why it is so hard to trust and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, People, Promise

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• People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

  Emile Zola

  Life, Motivational, Perseverance

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• You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Notebook

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• People ask me a lot of questions and I don't always have the time to stop and talk, but I do a lot of email mentorship with college students. So if I meet a college kid during a motivational speech or something like that I'll stop and say, "I see you need help in this area. Here's my email. Let me help." So, it's just my way of giving back.

  Chrisette Michele

  Kids, College, People

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• If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Thinking, People, Buying

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• At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

  Gloria Steinem

  Light, People, Age

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• Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Heart, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Men, Boys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.23, Penguin

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• Ask me. I'm a cow expert.

  Gordon Korman

  Experts, Cows, Asks

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• There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated... To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

  Edward Abbey

  Distance, Interesting, Forever

  "The Journey Home : Some Words in Defense of the American West" by Edward Abbey, (p. 205), 1977.

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• You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Girl, Drunk, Want

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “Novels”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.

  Ruskin Bond

  Taken, Simple, Thinking

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• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

  J. D. Salinger

  Liars, Memorable, Magazines

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Wind, Soul, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Writing, Young Friends

  "Of magic and single motherhood". Interview with Margaret Weir, www.salon.com. March 14, 1999.

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• Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

  Martin Buber

  World, Moses, Said

  Martin Buber (2013). “Tales of the Hasidim”, p.339, Schocken

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• Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Depression, Real, Angel

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.125, Vintage

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• When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

  Charles Simic

  People, Finding Happiness, Firsts

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