Quotes of: Why-bother Keyword

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Alice Englert

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

Anchee Min

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

Antonio Munoz Molina

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.

Arnold Palmer

You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

William Faulkner

Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

Wayne Rooney

I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shoul...

Bernard Goldberg

Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a preapproved orifice?

Bared to You

For why war? Nada ne hurt, sister ne hurt, for why you make vesna sore? For why!

Aisyx

If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good enough for a lifetime; why do we always have to be ramping up?

Jake Paltrow

Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

Robbie Williams

Bluto: Kroger, your Delta Tau Chi name is Pinto. Pinto: Why "Pinto"? Bluto: [belches] Why not?

Animal House

Why do you pray?" he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? "I don't know why," I said, even more disturbed and ill at ease. "I don't know why." After that day I saw him often. He explained to...

Night

Gilbert Huph: I'm not happy, Bob. Not happy. Ask me why. Bob: Okay. Why? Gilbert Huph: Why what? Be specific, Bob. Bob: Why are you unhappy? Gilbert Huph: Your customers make me unhappy. Bob: Why? Have you gotten complaints? Gilbert Huph: Complaints ...

The Incredibles

You ask me why I’m nice to you,” he said. “Why, why, why. But you don’t ask me stuff that matters. Who I am or where I been. What I see when I look at you. What I want.

The Book of Broken Hearts

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Ozwald Boateng

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

Larry King

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

Matt Groening

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

Yehuda Berg

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw

Col. Rodin: One last thing. What codename will you use? The Jackal: Why not the Jackal? Col. Rodin: Why not?

The Day of the Jackal