Why Quotes
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From the time I started the decathlon, I've loved the event. I didn't know why. I still don't know why.
Ashton Eaton
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It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move.
Gene Wolfe
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The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'
James Wan
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Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.
George C. Wolfe
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As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.
Lisa Loeb
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Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
Jami Attenberg
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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
H. G. Wells
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I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.
Joe Biden
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This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.
Barack Obama
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I think you kind of need to acknowledge that the reason why sequels do well is because people that loved the first one come back.
James Wan
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What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.
John Zorn
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I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The most important thing is that we're impacting people for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ... that's why we're here.
Ben Zobrist
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It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'
Brian Fallon
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Why aren’t we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants?
Donald Trump
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For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite turn out that way.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala
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People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?
Kathy Szeliga
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I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney
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My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.
Anouska Hempel
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He George W. Bush was speaking in congress and he was saying 'Why do they hate us? Because of what’s going on right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Except for me, of course. I took the presidency in a bureaucratic coup with the help of my father’s friends in the courthouse around the corner.'
Marc Maron
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If I was such a corporate Democrat, why would the California Nurses Association, one of the leading advocates for a single-payer system, endorse me?
Jimmy Gomez
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The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
John Eldredge
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Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
David Whyte
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It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow