When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
I think if love is real, and headed toward the altar, the sex part-within reason-can wait.
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
