All Quotes

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
‐‐ Tom G. Palmer

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.
‐‐ Tom Metzger

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook - it sounds trivial, but people matter.
‐‐ Reid Hoffman

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
‐‐ Maureen Murphy

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
‐‐ Jay Leno

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.
‐‐ Leslie Nielsen

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'
‐‐ Joe Garcia

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
‐‐ Frank A. Clark

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.
‐‐ Rita Moreno

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
‐‐ Leslie Nielsen

The reason they don't make movies for adults and for people which are the largest bulge of the population is because they are not usually going to the movie the first weekend. They take a while to learn about it, probably word of mouth. It takes a lot of money to release a picture.
‐‐ Rob Reiner

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.
‐‐ Craig McCracken

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
‐‐ Lyn Nofziger

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.
‐‐ Robert Luskin

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.
‐‐ Jacob Lew

The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
‐‐ Garrison Keillor

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
‐‐ Michael K. Simpson

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
‐‐ Hideki Tojo

The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.
‐‐ Rachel Johnson

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.
‐‐ John Pistole

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.
‐‐ Patti Smith

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.
‐‐ Nicholas A. Christakis

The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, 'You're the first to do this. You're the first to do that.' Don't dwell on race all the time.
‐‐ Monte Irvin

The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
‐‐ Sumner Redstone

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
‐‐ Alan Watts

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.
‐‐ John Kasich

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.
‐‐ Michael J. Massimino

The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.
‐‐ Ren Ng

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk

The reason we make money is because we have a few different business models. One is ads: we get incredibly high click rates because most people on Scribd are searching the site for something, or they came from a search engine, and they're looking for something specific.
‐‐ Trip Adler

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.
‐‐ Jimmie Walker

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
‐‐ Freddie Mercury

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
‐‐ Pia Zadora

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.
‐‐ Elon Musk

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
‐‐ Alan Watts

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie