Quotes of: Why Keyword

Sweeney Todd: [sung] They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why! Because in all of the whole human race, Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two. There's the one staying put in his proper place and one with his foot...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Moses: You know it is death to strike an Egyptian? Joshua: I know it. Moses: Yet you struck him. Why? Joshua: To save the old woman. Moses: What is she to you? Joshua: An old woman. [Joshua was defending his Hebrew race] Egyptian guard: Lord Prince, ...

The Ten Commandments

Marwood: How come Monty owns such a horrible little shack? Withnail: No idea. Marwood: You never discuss your family do you? Withnail: I fail to see my family's of any interest to you. I've absolutely no interest in yours. I dislike relatives in gene...

Withnail & I

Eddie Valiant: You crazy rabbit! I'm out there risking my neck for you, and what are you doing? Singing and dancing! Roger Rabbit: But I'm a toon. Toons are supposed to make people laugh. Eddie Valiant: Sit down! Roger Rabbit: You don't understand. T...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[after Juror #8 has established that the old man witness could not have heard the killing over the noise of the elevated train] Juror #3: Why should he lie? What's he got to gain? Juror #9: Attention, maybe. Juror #3: You keep coming in with these br...

12 Angry Men

Bai Ling: I don't get it. Were does all that fun get you? If you find the right person, why waste time on the others? Chow Mo Wan: If I find the right person? A man like me has nothing much except free time. That's why I need company. Bai Ling: So pe...

2046

Let it be..let it be.. Let the ppl think the way they want, Live the life the way u want Let it be..let it be.. Nothing is permanent then why to worry, Live life condition free Let it be..let it be.. Smile cost nothing..still u pay for it, why we liv...

Love

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor...

Life

Mortality Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, B...

William Knox

Why do I keep losing, Harvey? Don't tell me God's trying to make me a better person. Don't tell me all of this is so I can be stronger. Because I'm not stronger, Harv. I'm weak. I keep getting weaker and weaker, and I keep praying and praying...' He ...

Willowy Whisper

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

The Camel Club

If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?

Cartoonist's Book Camp

Of course. What else? Why can't any of you guys ever come up with something that uses chocolate?

Carpe Corpus

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

The Cold Cold Ground

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

The Chronoliths

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

The Collector

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Course in General Linguistics

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

Celestial Kings and Queens

What is strange is that we may remember what we have done, but not always why we did it.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

Dangled Carat