Why Quotes
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Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.
H. L. Mencken
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There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?
John Garfield
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We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Lorraine Toussaint
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She glanced at him. 'What gods do you respect?''None.''And why not?''I help myself,' he said.
Octavia E. Butler
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That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.
Doug Liman
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I think it's a violation of user privacy to continue storing email addresses if you tell users your service is shutting down. I sign up for a service, and if you're no longer providing that service, why should you keep my information?
Cheryl Yeoh
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.
Danielle Steel
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When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.
David Niven
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Look, Jeyaretnam can't win the infighting. I'll tell you why. WE are in charge. Every government ministry and department is under our control. And in the infighting, he will go down for the count every time... I will make him crawl on his bended knees, and beg for mercy.
Lee Kuan Yew
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I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
Lynn Redgrave
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Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
George Chakiris
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In the first test screening of 'RoboCop,' it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, 'I liked it because it was political.' And the second answer was because, 'It feels like it deals with current affairs.' And the third answer was, 'Because it feels emotional.'
Joel Kinnaman
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Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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I couldn't believe it. It was unbelievable, that's why. My face was like a frozen fish finger. All rigid and pale. (But obviously not with breadcrumbs on it.)
Louise Rennison
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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
R. C. Sproul
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I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn’t help but wonder why. Didn’t they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I’m one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don’t apply to me.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.
Jack Roy
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
Jodie Foster
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!
Octave Mirbeau
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To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
Prem Rawat
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Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters