Why Quotes

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.