Why Quotes

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

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.