Why Quotes

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

There's a lot of things that I don't promote and I do promote mescaline. They open places in your mind that other things don't and if you're smiling, why not?

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave.

You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you’re at it? (Julian)

I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

Brittany and I don't date other people." "Why not?" "It's called being boyfriend and girlfriend.

Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war.

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

When we love there is no reason why.

I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

Why not Bill Gates for president? There are so many businesses' that empower charities. How many men give away all their money to charities? Why not them for President?

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.