Why Quotes
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Well, honestly, the films I personally like to go see are smaller, more character-driven pieces, so that's why the movies I've made have been smaller, more character-driven movies.
Edward Burns
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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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This is a history, in that it intends to describe what happened and suggest why. … I may have fooled around with a few facts. But I served as witness until as close to the end as anyone could have … and so there is not so much art in this as to make it irrelevant.
Neal Stephenson
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Carolyn Maloney identifies with the possibility of being raped, that's why she hung in there for the Debbie Smith Bill. So it - it's essential that in New York, if we can't get a prominent woman in New York, where can we? I mean there's so many states that have never even had a woman senator. We're still on our first this and our first that.
Eleanor Smeal
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
Octavia E. Butler
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Girls are supposed to dance. That's why god gave them parts that jiggle.
Donald Glover
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When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
Lilly Singh
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That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.
Cole Swindell
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
Quentin Crisp
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I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how much downtown Indianapolis has to offer.
Andrew Luck
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And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
Adrian Lyne
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on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others': I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them his chosen subjects to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.
Edward Hopper
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A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
Matt Berninger The National
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No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere.
Barack Obama
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We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.
C. S. Lewis
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I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
Antony Sher -
The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
Elizabeth Dole
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I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.
Andrew Scott
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For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.
Alice Ripley
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There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.
Kevin Hart
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LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.
James Murphy
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It's all about the vibes. That's why it's called 'Vibras' in Spanish.
J Balvin
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'There’s no reason why women shouldn’t behave like rational beings,' said Simon stolidly. Poirot said dryly: 'Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!'
Agatha Christie
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Part of why I think I have so much fun working in the mockumentary genre is that you can cut to pretty much anything at any time. People are now so conditioned to watch documentaries - they know how they operate, and that you can introduce a new character by cutting to them, and now they're in it. Similarly, being able to treat a sidebar idea that has nothing to do with your main story really seriously, the way the rest of it is being treated - all the pomp and circumstances lend themselves, I feel, to making comedy feel really earned and funnier and weirder.
Andy Samberg