All Quotes

Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
‐‐ Barton Seaver

Why are Franz Ferdinand the perfect live band? They just are.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.
‐‐ Rupert Everett

Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.'
‐‐ Clive Thompson

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
‐‐ Anna Kournikova

Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

Why are people always shooting zombies? Why not just chop their heads off? How can zombies get you if you have a good sword?
‐‐ Linden Ashby

Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.
‐‐ Paul Greengrass

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
‐‐ Craig Bruce

Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
‐‐ Studs Terkel

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?
‐‐ Steven Michael Quezada

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
‐‐ David Packard

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.
‐‐ Jeremy Paxman

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
‐‐ Annie Lennox

Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America.
‐‐ George Noory

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
‐‐ Henry Miller

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.
‐‐ Heather Mills

Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'
‐‐ Adrienne Bailon

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'
‐‐ Eve Ensler

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
‐‐ Conor Oberst

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
‐‐ Raymond Arroyo

Why be a man when you can be a success?
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
‐‐ Alice Cooper

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
‐‐ Jeff Landry

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
‐‐ Gray Davis

Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.
‐‐ Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
‐‐ Akshay Kumar

Why buy a book when you can join a library.
‐‐ Ricky Gervais

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
‐‐ John Shelton Reed

Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.
‐‐ Grizz Chapman

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.
‐‐ Anna Torv

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

Why can't a woman be more like a man?
‐‐ Alan Jay Lerner

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?
‐‐ Margaret Cho