Why Quotes

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

I have never sought the reason why I write.

The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?