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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Source: www.ebony.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

  George Shearing

  Music, Dog, People

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• People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, People

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• You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is there a reason?... I write only because there is a voice within me. That will not be still.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.

  Barbara Jordan

  Life, Motivational, Morning

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• When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Prayer, Heart, Choices

  Amy Carmichael (2016). “If: Devotional Edition”, p.68, Aneko Press

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• When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Mama, Ends

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