Why Quotes

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

You have drug addicts that are now walking around this city looking for a fix, and that's the reason why they were breaking in hospitals and drugstores. They're looking for something to take the edge off of their jones, if you will.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.

We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.