Why Quotes
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I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.
Jonathan Krohn
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I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.
Margaret Geller
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Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe?
Emil Cioran
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I'm quite gregarious. But when it comes to relationships, I mean, I'm no good at it. I suck at it. And people say I'm way too hard on myself, but I always feel like somebody else is going to say it if I don't. Why not just beat them to the punch so it doesn't hurt so much?
John Grant
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People are so influenced by the media that they really believe a 38-24-45 plastic-surgery body is normal, and they can't understand why a body would possibly have cellulite or bumps.
Barbie Ferreira
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We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
Mark Ruffalo
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Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?
Alan Alda
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R&B is my home. It's who I am. It's who I've been. It's the first genre I fell in love with. It's the reason why I've been able to do other genres of music.
Ne-Yo
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Nigel Barton: Eh dad, why do you always walk in the middle of the road?Harry Barton: I don't know.Nigel Barton: What do you think the pavement's for?Harry Barton: Dogs to poop in, by the looks of things!
Dennis Potter
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Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
T. C. Boyle
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You shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects. And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did truly think, that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves?
Francis Bacon
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If there is anyone who still wonders why this war is being fought, let him look to Norway. If there is anyone who has any delusions that this war could have been averted, let him look to Norway; and if there is anyone who doubts the democratic will to win, again I say, let him look to Norway.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Elon Musk is talking about silicon nanoparticles pulsing through our veins to make us sort of semi-cyborg computers. But why not take a noninvasive approach? I've been working and trying to think and invent a way to do this for a number of years and finally happened upon it and left Facebook to do it.
Mary Lou Jepsen
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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
Tahereh Mafi
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So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.
Lindy Boggs
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Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?
Joaquin Andujar
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February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can't begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it's so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it's so great.
Lionel Shriver
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A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
Bruno Rossi
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I became blinded by what I thought I needed to do. I was wrong. I was stupid. But not for one minute did I ever stop loving you. And that's why I deserve to be forgiven.
Christie Craig
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One of the problems and the reason why Carolyn [Maloney ] wrote the book, the Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated is that some people think we have made it when we have not and there's much to be done.
Eleanor Smeal
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As a congressman, why should I be forced to peruse cable stations and blog sites for information on the discussions and then be asked to vote for the deal when I have no input and no time to know even what's in it?
John Fleming
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Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?
Van Jones
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I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing, and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.
Annette Bening