Why Quotes

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.