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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.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- I myself have 12 hats, and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself?
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to…
- When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many…
- Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
- The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.
- One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In…
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
- The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
- I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why…
- Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to…
- Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder…
- Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
- I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public…
- Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.
- Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his…
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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… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- 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