Why Quotes
22640 quotes by 10701 authors
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't…
— Alexis Arguello
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
— J. J. Abrams
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
— Desi Arnaz
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Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
— Frank Abagnale
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that…
— Arthur Ashe
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there…
— Bashar al-Assad
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
— David Attenborough
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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms…
— David Attenborough
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It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was…
— David Attenborough
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on…
— Margaret Atwood
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.…
— Margaret Atwood
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
— Margaret Atwood
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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.
— Paul Auster
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It…
— Paul Auster
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