Why Quotes
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
Jack Falahee
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
Carli Lloyd
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Something has to make you run I don't know why I didn't come
Norah Jones
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You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to.
Kurt Elling
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For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
James Brady
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
Mary Gaitskill
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I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.
Chely Wright
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Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
Mel Gibson
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison
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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
David Foster Wallace
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I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.
Sam Hunt
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
Hari Kunzru
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All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. 'Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me...'
Anna Akhmatova
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I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.
Shawn Mendes
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver
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I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.
Cam Newton
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
J. Carter Brown
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Frances Wright
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
Taissa Farmiga
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I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.
Thomas Rhett