The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Thomas Wolfe
I’ve got confidence that I’ll be able to pick it up eventually, but that’s the reason I’m a full-time Sevens player this year: because I knew coming into it that it would be really tough, and I’ve got to give it my all. – Sonny Bill Williams
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening. – Sergio Aragones
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. – Thomas Ken
There’s no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience. – Warren Littlefield
I’m very lucky to be doing what I’m doing, and the reason I’m doing everything is because of fans. – Tony Oller
That’s part of the reason I called the album ‘Shoot From The Hip.’ I did feel it was time to open up more. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason. – Walter Kirn
There’s a reason that students don’t grade their own papers. There’s a reason defendants don’t sentence themselves. And there’s the reason the State Department doesn’t get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress’s job. – Trey Gowdy
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. – Talcott Parsons
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. – Voltaire
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. – Thomas Jefferson
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. – William Strunk, Jr.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. – Will Cuppy
There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don’t always feel protected or served by that particular institution. – Sterling K. Brown
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. – Wilfrid Sheed
In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense. – Sarah Hall
That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again. – Sessue Hayakawa