Why Quotes

Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.