Why Quotes

Why should poetry have to make sense?

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not?

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

They understood why I left ER. It wasn't just about a guy.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?