Why Quotes

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?

Well, honestly, the films I personally like to go see are smaller, more character-driven pieces, so that's why the movies I've made have been smaller, more character-driven movies.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.