Queries Quotes

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Allen Wheelis

  Science, Giving, Honest

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  27 Copy quote

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

  Andrea Brown

  Long, Letters, Skirts

  4 Copy quote

• …. 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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• There's also a way that you have of being precise but also allusive, that works well for me - it's something about the open-hearted way you frame your queries. Instead of feeling daunted or discouraged, I feel excited to give whatever it is a try. This takes a lot of editorial wisdom and confidence - to know just how to get the writer to take that extra chance.

  George Saunders

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Government, Nsa

  7 Copy quote

• I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It'll just know this is something that you're going to want to see.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Years, Majority, Asking

  5 Copy quote

• Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

  Sergey Brin

  Couple, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• [Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

  Joan of Arc

  Wisdom, Grace, May

  6 Copy quote

• Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious intent. Anyone who wishes to live an authentic life must answer these questions, regardless of whether they believe in the existence of the soul or practice a religion. If these queries remain unanswered, life will more than likely remain superficial and empty, in spite of any material abundance. If you wish to make the soul's journey, then I suggest you ask yourself these questions relentlessly and ruthlessly, and listen carefully.

  Ilchi Lee

  Believe, Journey, Practice

  13 Copy quote

• When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nice, Worry, Worried

  4 Copy quote

• Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube, there aren't any footnotes - and they want to know why did you say this. Well if they bothered to look up something in print, they would've seen why I said that. If they ask for evidence, I just say well take a look and mention something they can read and that usually ends the conversation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Looks, Want, Saws

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence long... These are from Twitter. And if you look at the nature of those one sentence letters, most of the time it's something that came to somebody's mind - somebody walking down the street had a thought and sent it out. If they thought about it for two minutes they would not have sent it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Two, Long, Mind

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Mean, Self

  4 Copy quote

• Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Letters, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Nice, Two, Feet

  4 Copy quote

• Klaus Mann saw very clearly how different was his own (more liberated) form of homosexuality from the same-sex attractions of his father - and that is reiterated in TM's diary queries about "how two men can sleep together".

  Philip Kitcher

  Sex, Father, Sleep

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Health, Age, Answers

  4 Copy quote

• In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, Google, Library

  4 Copy quote

• 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. Particularly, it was only Islam that provided satisfactory answer to the question relating to the birth of Christ. For the first time I was convinced about the religion itself. I pray my family members might appreciate these facts.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Appreciate, Islam, Answers

  9 Copy quote

• The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.

  E. J. Dionne

  War, Battle, Identity

  8 Copy quote

• I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Editors, Agents, Letters

  4 Copy quote