Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. – Jack Henry Abbott
‘Moldova: Yes or No?’ That’s a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say ‘Yes, you’re in Moldova.’ I’m so excited. People need that. That’s the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are… in Moldova. Or not. – Jimmy Fallon
If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a downturn, we have limited scope for responding, and it is an important reason for caution. – Janet Yellen
For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends. – Jim Carrey
Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they’re simple to deconstruct. – Jeffrey Kluger
For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq. – Jay Parini
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. – Johan Huizinga
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. – Hermann von Helmholtz
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn’t pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again. – Helen Fisher
For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, ‘Oh, it’s all rom-coms!’ – Jenny Slate
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. – Jules Verne
The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I’m convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They’re not that difficult, truly. – Jack Nicklaus
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. – John Irving
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. – James Russell Lowell
There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me. – Joey Lauren Adams
The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but rather, ‘Can they suffer?’ – Jeremy Bentham
I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there’s no reason to get up in the morning. – Jason Bateman
Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to. – Jamie Dimon
No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there’s probably a reason for it. Don’t forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics. – Jello Biafra
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. – Igor Stravinsky
We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people… who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target. – Jan Brewer
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke