Queries Quotes

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

Allen Wheelis

Science, Giving, Honest

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Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.

Farhan Akhtar

Real, Expression, Guy

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No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.

Theobald Smith

Hard Work, Science, Accomplishment

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Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.

Marc Ostrofsky

People, Holy Grail, Want

Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.

Brian Hodge

Real, Book, Home

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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

Nicholas Sparks

Writing, Doors, Two

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Knowing how to distinguish between an ideal keyword and the reality of queries will help you to refine your strategy and success as an online marketer.

Neil Patel

Reality, Knowing, Helping

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Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

Jermaine Jackson

Islam, Answers, Christianity

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There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Memories, Names, Demand

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

Charles Darwin

Men, Ideas, People

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A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.

Andrea Brown

Long, Letters, Skirts

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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

Winston Churchill

Military, Communication, Land

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

Nicholas Sparks

New York, Typical, Agents

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As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

Graydon Carter

Editors, Information, Lawyer

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Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

Cormac McCarthy

Doe

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Albert Camus

Sunday, Waiting Rooms, Office

Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.26, Vintage

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Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.

Eric Weiner

Country, Party, Simple

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Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.

Mark Zuckerberg

New York, People, Gone

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

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Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It's hardly surprising mobile search queries - and mobile commerce - are growing dramatically across the world.

Larry Page

Technology, Smartphones, Gadgets

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My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

Sergey Brin

Technology, Thinking, Glasses

"Google's Sergey Brin: smartphones are 'emasculating'" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life, Growing Up, Teaching

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The uncomfortable truth is that we all enjoyed the party far too much to query where all the booze was coming from. Now we seem intent on lynching the barman for letting us get drunk and attacking the Government for letting us get a hangover.

Sean O'Grady

Party, Hangover, Government

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It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.

Jackie Mason

Want, Illness, Discovering

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Most of the AI goes into figuring which are the important pages you want. And to some extent what your query means, and what you're likely to be after based on your previous behavior and other information it collects about you.

Stuart J. Russell

Mean, Important, Want

"Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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You're able to use a search engine, like Google or Bing or whatever. But those engines don't understand anything about pages that they give you; they essentially index the pages based on the words that you're searching, and then they intersect that with the words in your query, and they use some tricks to figure out which pages are more important than others. But they don't understand anything.

Stuart J. Russell

Giving, Google, Important

"Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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