Why Quotes

If I found the right guy, I think I would get married. Maybe. I just feel like it's just a contract. Why sign any more contracts, really?

Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.