Why Quotes

Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.