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Quotes About Answering

He suddenly remembered the tape he had taken from Susan's answering machine, and hoped to God there wasn't anything more important in Gordon's message than ravings about rabbits.
~ Douglas Adams
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.
~ Nicole Hollander
We moved from wondering to answering, which has not served us well at all.
~ Richard Rohr
Enigma! I call, adding a Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! because obviously it's the universal language for feline summoning. And maybe it is -- no sooner do I croon that magic phrase than I hear an answering meow.
~ Kelley Armstrong
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
~ Richard J. Needham
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
~ Vikram Seth
I put the Corvette in its spot in the parking garage and rode up in the elevator and went into my office and closed the door. There was a message on my answering machine from someone looking for Bob, but that was probably a wrong number. Or maybe it wasn't a wrong number. Maybe I was in the wrong office. Maybe I was in the wrong life.
~ Robert Crais
Psychopaths are notorious for not answering the question posed them or for answering in a way that seems unresponsive to the question.
~ Robert D. Hare
I'm not an answering machine—I don't have a message for you! What I have for you is a story.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering...as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was a draft going on.
~ Laurie Notaro
I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
~ Harrison Ford
Attorneys were often the worst witnesses, believing their place to be on the other side of the podium, asking, not answering questions.
~ Robert Dugoni
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'
~ Rollo May
The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow," says my father Lucifer. "For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers to God go without answers.
~ Robert Nye
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
~ Pat Gillick
No, I snapped. I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response. Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this? he asked. I shot him a look. Just wondering.
~ Sarah Dessen
On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
~ Adam D'Angelo
He made a production out of answering her, marching around to her side of the car, carrying his belly in front of him like a gift.
~ Ross MacDonald
With all humility and abstinence, with all temperance and patience, with modest bearing and appearance was she. Discreet in answering was she always.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Some consciences are fitted with automatic answering machine that work very well. But I never got the technology under control
~ Emile Ajar
Verily the God that knows how not to reveal himself, must also know how best to reveal himself! If there be a calling child, there must be an answering Father!
~ George MacDonald
No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.
~ Connie Willis
No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.
~ Sarah Dessen