Personal Question Quotes:

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

- Guy Finley

topic: Numbers, Answers, Personal Question

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

- Michel Foucault

source: Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, p.30, The New Press

topic: Personal Question, Problem, Absence

It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Bed, Personal Question, Might

Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.

- Kamila Shamsie

source: Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Denial, World, Gestures, Personal Question, Rhetorical Question

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

- Jason Reitman

source: Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. December 4, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Giving, Answers, Personal Question

If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.

- Walter B. Pitkin

topic: Eye, Hands, Play, Work And Play, Personal Question

The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.

- Jean Marzollo

topic: Pregnancy, Men, Wife, Girth, Personal Question

My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.

- Molly Picon

source: Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

topic: Grandmother, People, Curiosity, Personal Question

The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.

- William Faulkner

topic: Trying, Different, Answers, Personal Question

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

- Edmund Stoiber

topic: Accepted, Angela, Personal Question

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

- Chris Matthews

source: Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Believe, Responsibility, Hygiene, Personal Question

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

- Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

topic: Games, Play, People, Personal Question

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

- Julia Glass

topic: Dog, Training, Fans, Dog Training, Personal Question

It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

- Colman McCarthy

topic: Moving, Ocean, Caring, Moving Beyond, Living Room

Do you love him?" There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.

- Richelle Mead

topic: People, World, Vampire Academy, Personal Question

One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.

- Julia Gregson

topic: Cities, Rivers, People, Personal Question

If you look at the Bernie Sanders of today and you look at the Bernie Sanders of a year ago [2015], when this started, he`s come a long way in terms of.This was a guy at the start of the campaign who had contempt for any personal questions.

- Steve Kornacki

topic: Years, Long, Guy, Personal Question