James Lipton Quotes

I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times throughout my life. People say, "You read the dictionary?" I say, "Yes, and you can really believe it."

I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.

With time, people forget to say, "Darling I love you." just that word.

I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.

I want to live in a world where people care about others, and try not to hurt others with words or actions.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. There are many people in America who don't get that.

Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.

I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy.

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.