Why Quotes

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.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.