Why Quotes

People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.

May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.