Why Quotes

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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as… — Joo Won
Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems… — Laurence Overmire
I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the… — Fay Godwin
In 2003, a lot of us were saying, 'Where is the link between Saddam and bin Laden What does Iraq have to do with 911… — George Clooney
Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why. — Benjamin Zander
I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch.… — Carrie Snodgress
I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I… — Amanda Holden
You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put… — Tim Conway
I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4. — Rosie O'Donnell
"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why,… — Unknown Author
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into… — Robert M. Pirsig
University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper,… — Isaac Asimov
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch,… — Paul Lockhart
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't… — Ronald Graham
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and… — Unknown Author
Since there my past life lies, why alter it? — Robert Browning
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear… — John Berger
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all… — Paul Claudel
The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
I was the best man at the wedding... If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him? — Jerry Seinfeld
That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone. — Unknown Author
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for… — Otto Weininger
As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company? — Ron Conway
It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of… — Herbie Hancock
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every… — August Strindberg

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