Why Quotes

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

~ Rafael Moneo

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

~ Tim Gunn

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small I don't know why.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

~ Philip Johnson

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

~ Will Rogers

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

~ Mark Cuban

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

~ Doug E. Fresh

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

~ Thomas Szasz

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

~ Jet Li

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

~ Bill Watterson

I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you'll see why.

~ Marcus Sakey

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

~ John Cleese

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

~ Woody Allen

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

~ Martin Scorsese

Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

~ Ramez Naam

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

~ Orlando Bloom

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

~ Mark Udall

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

~ Jonathan Ive

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

~ Rafael Nadal

If food were free, why work?

~ Douglas Horton

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

~ Jonathan Sacks

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

~ Ravi Zacharias

Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.

~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

~ Stephen Hawking

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

~ Dale Carnegie

There's just something about vampires that's sexy. It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.

~ Nina Dobrev

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

~ Sojourner Truth

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

~ Leland Stanford

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

~ Barbara Bush

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

~ Valentina Tereshkova

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

~ Barbra Streisand

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

~ Jimmy Iovine

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

~ Sylvia Earle

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

~ Cornelius Vanderbilt