All Quotes

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
‐‐ John Cusack

The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
‐‐ Lascelles Abercrombie

The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.
‐‐ Kathy Freston

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.
‐‐ John Tyler Bonner

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
‐‐ Tamae Watanabe

The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.
‐‐ Samuel R. Delany

The reason for the blockade on Gaza was not to punish the Palestinians but to continue to delegitimize Hamas.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
‐‐ Edmond de Goncourt

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
‐‐ John Jay Chapman

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.
‐‐ Yakov Smirnoff

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.
‐‐ George William Norris

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.
‐‐ Ari Fleischer

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
‐‐ Sam Levenson

The reason 'Hamilton' works is because there is no distance between that story that happened 200-some-odd years ago and now, because it looks like America now. It helps create a connection that wouldn't have been there if it was 20 white guys on stage.
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
‐‐ Andrew J. Bernstein

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.
‐‐ Kelly Reilly

The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton. Everybody was telling me why I shouldn't run: I was too young, I had small children, I should start at the school board level.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
‐‐ Paul Rand

The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
‐‐ KaDee Strickland

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with liquidity that brings about unintended consequences.
‐‐ Marc Faber

The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.
‐‐ Michael Vick

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.
‐‐ Gordon Strachan

The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
‐‐ Catherine Opie

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.
‐‐ Doug Henning

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.
‐‐ Yayoi Kusama

The reason I decided to run for Senate is one of my responsibilities as governor is to make sure that the voices of our people and our small businesses in New Hampshire are heard in Washington and that we continue to make the type of progress we're making here at the state level; we need that same type of response and progress in Washington.
‐‐ Maggie Hassan

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
‐‐ David Bailey

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
‐‐ Sammy Hagar

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
‐‐ Jim Courier

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
‐‐ Garth Hudson

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
‐‐ Bjork

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.
‐‐ Bjork

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
‐‐ Franco Moschino

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
‐‐ John Sexton

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
‐‐ Felix Dennis

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
‐‐ Chuck Close

The reason I don't make more movies is because it's really hard to find ideas that I go, 'Yeah, I could spend two years of my life doing this.' Mostly what I do is say no to movies because I go, 'Maybe I would see that, but I don't think I could spend two years on it. I'd go nuts.'
‐‐ Jonathan Mostow

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
‐‐ Brian Eno

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.
‐‐ Zayn Malik

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
‐‐ Kenneth H. Cooper

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.
‐‐ Rose McIver