Quotes of: Why Keyword

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

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Sydney J. Harris

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

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Dorothy Thompson

What I have been asking myself for years is: WHY?! Why kill yourself in the gym? Why try to avoid a little bit of a gut? Why feel bad for eating half of a cake? This doesn’t mean that I killed somebody, plus I left the other half of the cake for to...

An unexpected Proposal

Why would God create a defective product? Why would a God who gave me free will require any certain belief? Why would a God powerful enough to create the universe need me to justify His existence? Why would He want me seeking favor with Him to manipu...

David W. Earle

Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a wr...

Summer and the City

[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about 'why' questions. When we ask, 'Why?' we usually mean 'How?' If we can answer the latter, that generally suffices for our purposes. For example, we might ask: 'Why is the Earth 93 million miles fr...

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

If there be no remedy, why worry?.

Spanish

Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks obl...

The Complete Short Novels

What are you working on?" Elizabeth asked. Nate could hear her tapping a pencil on her desk. She took notes during their conversations. He didn't know what she did with the notes, but it bothered him. "I have a lecture at the sanctuary in four days."...

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

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

Back to Methuselah

Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination.

Scratch - with Audio Theater and Links