Why Quotes

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.

If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.