Reason Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

I think that things happen for a reason.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.