Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested. – Milla Jovovich
In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why. – Edmund Morgan
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on ‘Kids Incorporated,’ ‘cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that – maybe that’s why I’m fascinated by guns. – Fergie
You either like something, or you don’t; you won’t change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it. – David Alpay
If you’ve been massive and it’s all slid away, you tend to get written off. It’s quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I’ve got this problem with nostalgia. – Gary Numan
Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center? – D. B. Sweeney
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave. – Diablo Cody
But there’s no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don’t believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don’t believe in anything. – Pat Robertson
You know it’s funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it’s curious that they don’t do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don’t. – Garry Shandling
I don’t know that there’s any rhyme or reason to bullying… it’s not even the bully’s fault, which is why it’s such a difficult thing to combat. – Dove Cameron
You know why they think I’m reclusive? I don’t do the Hollywood stuff. I’ve never been on the circuit. – Eddie Murphy
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools. – Charles Tupper
I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is. – David Hewson
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. – Mark Van Doren
I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something. – Dan Scanlon
The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we’re playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don’t know why. By the same token, you can’t even really say why you like it. – Chico Hamilton
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? – Natalie Clifford Barney
I have an editor in my head, that’s why I can’t read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. – Colleen McCullough
Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it? – Michael Cacoyannis
That’s why we’re doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don’t have anything against it (Halloween), but it’s not our tradition. – Fernando Flores
I interned with Marc Jacobs in college, then worked at J. Crew. I learned a lot about how to fit clothes and what kinds of things sell and why. – Chris Benz
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT. – Noam Chomsky
If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing? – Marian Burros
