Why Quotes
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Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
Franz Schubert
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That's why I continue to share my story.
Jazz Jennings
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I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
Jamila Woods
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Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.
Charles Kennedy
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The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.
Pete Cashmore
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Isn't it funnyHow a bear likes honey?Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!I wonder why he does?
A. A. Milne
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Hatin' and I know they got a reason why. I ain't gotta wonder if I wanna lease or buy.
Nicki Minaj
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Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
Max von Sydow
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.
Martha Graham
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If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
Kabir
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I've always said that actors should be treated very carefully. We need a lot of understanding. There are millions of things that could destroy us. We are broken up people inside. That's why you find a lot of us landing up with the psychiatrists.
Amitabh Bachchan
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Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.
Deirdre O'Kane
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Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
James Lapine
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't honestly know why they offered me the part in Rent.
Adam Rickitt
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I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.
Daniel Tosh
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I remember how, when I lived in Paris, there was a McDonald's, and I'd always see Americans eating there and think, 'Why do they come all the way to Paris and eat at McDonald's?'
Diedrich Bader
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That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
C. S. Lewis
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Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.
B. R. Hayden
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If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'
Jay IDK
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I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?
Elisha Cuthbert
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The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us.
Mary Beard
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There is violence and injustice in our world that must be confronted. We must confront it not by splitting apart but by standing together as free nations, as free people. I know that a call to arms can stir the souls of men and women more than a call to lay them down. But that is why the voices for peace and progress must be raised together.
Barack Obama