The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other. – Eleanor Catton
When it comes to social issues, Republicans don’t just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why. – Gary Bauer
The question I always get is, Why didn’t you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time. – Mark Goddard
Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker? – Etel Adnan
Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can’t figure out why. – George Thorogood
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with – crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That’s not why we don’t do it. We don’t do it because it is wrong. – Frank Miller
I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers. – Douglas Coupland
Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted. – Eric Ries
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature. – Dakota Fanning
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? – David Frum
Sometimes you don’t know why you’re doing something. You’re intuitively following, to see where it leads. – Edward Burtynsky
I grew up in the eighties; that’s probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that. – Chino Moreno
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? – Carrie Snow
The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included. – Martin Jacques
Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that’s why we’re alive. – Fiona Apple
I do not write often now – not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it? – Mary Boykin Chesnut
It’s just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It’s not enough anymore to ‘Just do it.’ Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it. – Mark McKinnon
Most of the traditional foods we eat on Jewish holidays start out with a seasonal reason as to why we eat them, and later a religious significance is tacked on. – Gil Marks
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody’s inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be. – Max Hastings
Why change? If you’re happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change. – Eden Hazard
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike. – Daniel Goleman
Why should you stay in one place and one country if they’re not offering you a job? It doesn’t make sense! – Estelle
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England – Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. – Charles Stewart Parnell
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes – it’s possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? – Elizabeth Moon
