Why Quotes

• When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

  

  Dee Brown
  • Life
  • America
  • Earth

• Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Search
  • Own
  • Momentum

• Dirk is like the German Moses, invincible and inspiring. That is why 'His Name Is Dirk' must be the Official Fan Song for Dirk Nowitzki.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Song
  • Name
  • German

• Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Selfish

• I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

  

  Marla Gibbs
  • Why

• Isn't that why people keep diaries - to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • People
  • Why

• The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

  

  Sara Willis
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

  

  James D'arcy
  • History
  • Strong
  • Perspective

• Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Why
  • Tennis

• Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Character
  • True
  • Funny

• I don't know why, but I don't fancy writing love songs; I never have.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Writing
  • Why

• I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance. They say I love nothing but money and the Presbyterian Church and that is why I never married.

  

  Charles Portis
  • People
  • Money
  • Church

• We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out.That is why I say the tragedy that is facing mankind is not AIDS or cancer, but Alzthiemer's disease.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Dream
  • Identity
  • Cancer

• Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Farmer
  • Eggs

• It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

  

  Urban Meyer
  • Why

• I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Mom

• It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • History
  • Future
  • Politics

• Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • Time
  • Why

• Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

  

  Lawrence Block
  • People
  • Earth
  • Eyes

• My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Why

• Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Good
  • Art
  • Science

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