Because Quotes

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.