Why Quotes
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If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.
Walter O'Brien
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With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?
Sacha Baron Cohen
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Joanne Rowling
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Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
Laila Ali
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Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?
Chris LeDoux
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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
J. I. Packer
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Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?
Connie Willis
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Who am I? What am I? Why am I?
Till Lindemann Rammstein
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I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
Alex Grey
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Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.
Cloris Leachman
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Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
Jay-Z
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I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.
Mark Ruffalo
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
Christiane Amanpour
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
Beverly Sills
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
Mara Brock Akil
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I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got something I want people to hear because I know they'll like it. They've gotta like it! The songs I've been writing are the sort of things you have to like.
Sly Stone
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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
David Copperfield
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
Natalie Cole
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I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
Olivier Theyskens
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He is using this as a joke. This is an insult coming from him. Why he chose to focus on the Black Caucus, I have no idea other than he is crazy and a racist.
Larry Miller
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.
Warren Farrell
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
Zadie Smith