All Quotes

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
‐‐ Georges Cuvier

Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.
‐‐ Milla Jovovich

Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.
‐‐ Klaus Kinski

Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
‐‐ Candice Olson

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
‐‐ Julio Cortazar

Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch

Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.
‐‐ Shawn Levy

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
‐‐ Clara Schumann

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
‐‐ David Riesman

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
‐‐ Lord Byron

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
‐‐ Aristophanes

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.
‐‐ Sandra Lee

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
‐‐ Ed Wood

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
‐‐ Kanye West

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
‐‐ Gary Becker

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
‐‐ John Stossel

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
‐‐ Mary Daly

Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?
‐‐ Pyotr Aven

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
‐‐ Victoria Woodhull

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.
‐‐ Martin Yan

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?
‐‐ Leslie Jones

Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.
‐‐ Douglas R. Oberhelman

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?
‐‐ Dennis Miller

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
‐‐ Gary Ross

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?
‐‐ Drew Carey

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?
‐‐ John Clayton

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
‐‐ Sacha Guitry

Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.
‐‐ Monica Cruz

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
‐‐ Clifford Stoll

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?
‐‐ Sepp Blatter

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
‐‐ Ron Paul

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
‐‐ Barbra Streisand