Why Quotes
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Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
Antoine Fuqua
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Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.
Frank Carlucci
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I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
Lou Holtz
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People should not be paid to go to Washington and not do their job. When they don't show up, why should we pay them?
Carlos Beruff
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With all the reaching out that's going around here, the President said Thursday in his press conference that he was reaching out to the press corp. What did he mean by that and why would he feel the need to reach out to a group of supposedly non-partisan people? — November 8, 2004
Jeff Gannon
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[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.
Van Morrison
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Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.
Louis Theroux
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Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.
Ben Bernanke
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Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?
Stevie Wonder
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I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?
Alan Ball
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If you can't be direct, why be?
Lily Tomlin
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I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.
Jimmy Smits
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He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
Bruce Beresford
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Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
Brian McKnight
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I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.
Derek Jacobi
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Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
Keith Haring
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The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made of." "Rest you brains and do not worry about the wall," replied the Woodman, "when we have climbed over it we shall know what is on the other side.
L. Frank Baum
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I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.
Edward Hopper
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I don't know why but it feels like home to me. The Scottish people are really friendly - you like to have fun and you don't care about anything, which is the same as I am.
Curtis Jones
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I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.
Bob Fosse
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Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.
Al Jarreau
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We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman’s life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb; then why would we allow a woman to determine a man’s life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?
Warren Farrell
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I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.
Khloe Kardashian
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When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
Matt Mullenweg