Why Quotes

• Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Why
  • Style

• Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Why
  • Playing
  • Hardest

• When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I've been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don't want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don't, look better than you, so why bother?

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • People
  • Why

• I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Generation
  • Feminist

• 'Think,' I told him, 'what may be waiting for you. You may discover the meaning of Spirit. You may open up a new world, as rich as the old one, but imperishable. You may prove to mankind their immortality and deliver them for ever from the fear of death. Why, man, you are picking at the lock of all the world's mysteries.'

  

  John Buchan
  • Up
  • World
  • May

• I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

  

  Don Was
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Me
  • Car

• Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • People
  • Done
  • Jump

• We must make, if we can, an enduring peace. That is why I feel so strongly regarding the proposal to hand over two million Germans to the Poles, who are an inferior people so far as concerns the experience and capacity for government. We do not want to create another Alsace-Lorraine.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • People
  • Experience
  • Peace

• I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Up
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

  

  James Thurber
  • Men
  • Running
  • Die

• I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Space
  • Myself

• Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Why

• Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Why
  • May
  • Dead

• I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Why
  • Wish
  • Rose

• Why can't it be a day where we take a moment and we stop and acknowledge the role that God has played in the formation of this country and its laws? What's so promotional about religion there?

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • God
  • Country
  • Stop

• I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Important
  • Think
  • Exercise

• If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as 'Why'd you start washing your hair every day?' and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Hair

• All the Southerners think we're Yanks, and all the Yanks think we're Southerners, and all the Midwesterners think we're East. Everybody's always wrong about Louisville. That's kind of why I love it so much.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Why

• Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Why

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