All Quotes

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.
‐‐ Xi Jinping

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.
‐‐ Pee Wee Reese

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
‐‐ Buddy Guy

Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
‐‐ Chris Matthews

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
‐‐ Katharine Whitehorn

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
‐‐ Elizabeth Meriwether

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
‐‐ Shakuntala Devi

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
‐‐ Claudette Colbert

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
‐‐ George Chakiris

Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.
‐‐ Candice Olson

Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
‐‐ Rachel Nichols

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
‐‐ Klaus Kinski

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
‐‐ John Osborne

Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

Why do I hate Obamacare? Because it is a blast against freedom. It is a socialist program which will not work. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It will be repealed.
‐‐ John Raese

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.
‐‐ Jonathan Raymond

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.
‐‐ Bob Gibson

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
‐‐ Sheldon Adelson

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.
‐‐ Kathie Lee Gifford

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.
‐‐ Giorgio Armani

Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.
‐‐ Tate Donovan

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.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.
‐‐ Stephen Chow

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.
‐‐ Bubba Watson

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.
‐‐ Jeff Garlin

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.
‐‐ Francis Spufford

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.
‐‐ Jules Shear

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
‐‐ Henny Youngman

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
‐‐ Henny Youngman

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
‐‐ James Longstreet

Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.
‐‐ John Katzman

Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors?
‐‐ Terry Wogan

Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.
‐‐ Ginnifer Goodwin

Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
‐‐ Bruno Maag

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
‐‐ Frank Pittman

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.
‐‐ Billy Beane

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson