All Quotes

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?
‐‐ James Branch Cabell

Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.
‐‐ George Vecsey

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'
‐‐ Nicholas Jarecki

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?
‐‐ Joaquin Andujar

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
‐‐ John Barrymore

Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain.
‐‐ Anthony Edwards

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?
‐‐ Gilles Duceppe

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
‐‐ Charles Farrar Browne

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?
‐‐ James Rouse

Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.
‐‐ Elayne Boosler

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
‐‐ Cristiano Ronaldo

Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.
‐‐ Zendaya

Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.
‐‐ Olga Kurylenko

Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at the end of it? But it's like, why not me? That's just life. It's tough. There's a lot more problems in the world. There are a lot of people who would wish to God they had my problem instead of having a sick child.
‐‐ Shane Filan

Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first 'Survivor' it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories and want to see more and more. Every new 'Survivor' is going to show you more.
‐‐ Montel Williams

Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
‐‐ Rachel Griffiths

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.
‐‐ Alexander Calder

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
‐‐ David Brin

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?
‐‐ Jose Clemente Orozco

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
‐‐ Eric Brown

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why not add benefits for making healthy food choices, provide a transition bonus for getting off food stamps, or increase job training opportunities and income - raising minimum wage?
‐‐ Donna Brazile

Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
‐‐ Pippa Middleton

Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based?
‐‐ Kenny Loggins

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
‐‐ David Byrne

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?
‐‐ Chris LeDoux

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!
‐‐ Orla Brady

Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.
‐‐ Ferran Adria

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
‐‐ Barbara Castle

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.
‐‐ Michael Fassbender

Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.
‐‐ Robert F. Engle

Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

Why not show off if you've got something to show?
‐‐ January Jones

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

Why not take a science fiction comic and put the characters in a small town to gain their particular perspective? A lot of that comes from me growing up in a small town on a farm, so that's what I know and what I'm comfortable with. My drawing style is also very sparse and minimalist, so a rural setting complements that.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
‐‐ Alber Elbaz

Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?
‐‐ Julia Sweeney