All Quotes

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
‐‐ Frank A. Clark

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
‐‐ Diogenes

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
‐‐ Matthew Tobin Anderson

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
‐‐ Henry Lawson

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
‐‐ Lawrence Block

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.
‐‐ Tom Shales

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.
‐‐ Raul Julia

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.
‐‐ Michael Lewis

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

Why play a chord when you can play one note?
‐‐ Alex Kapranos

Why pour shampoo into a rabbit's eyes to see how much shampoo you can put in an adult's eyes before they go blind? I'll put them in my hair, in my eyes before I would give them to anyone else.
‐‐ John Paul DeJoria

Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?
‐‐ Glenda Jackson

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
‐‐ Don Herold

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?
‐‐ Betty White

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.
‐‐ Astro Teller

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
‐‐ Richard M. Daley

Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?
‐‐ John Sweeney

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?
‐‐ John O. Brennan

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
‐‐ Neil Jordan

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
‐‐ Tom Hayden

Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about where they are going to get their next piece of bread?
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
‐‐ George Fox

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
‐‐ Kate O'Mara

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
‐‐ Mike Judge

Why should guns be treated different than toasters? If your defective product injures somebody, you're responsible for it.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
‐‐ Jim Bakker

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.
‐‐ Rob Corddry

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
‐‐ Rumi

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!
‐‐ Raymond Smullyan

Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it?
‐‐ Ivan Glasenberg

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
‐‐ Groucho Marx

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
‐‐ Avril Lavigne

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.
‐‐ Danny Huston

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
‐‐ Sam Peckinpah

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?
‐‐ Pearl White

Why should I have to say bye to one thing to do another? I can do lots of things at one time, and as much as I love to do films, I'd love to do ads as well!
‐‐ Tena Desae