Why Quotes

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.