Quotes About Because I Can

#1. You know, it's dangerous to touch me like that." He gazed
down into my eyes.
"You didn't seem to mind."
"That's because I can control myself better than others. You have
a date with danger or something?"
That was an understatement. It was more like death.

Lynn Mullican

#2. I'm a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I'm a sitting duck because I can't get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They're far ahead of me. That's what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It's a big, silent monster out there. That's what it feels like.

Viola Davis

#3. Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

James Ellroy

#4. Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?

Sharon Gannon

#5. If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't mean I don't trust you.It's just because I can't.Sometimes even best friends have to keep secrets from each other.
-Cass

Pseudonymous Bosch

#6. I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can't find it.

Peter Lindbergh

#7. I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I'll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don't ask me to live apart from you again. Because ... I can't.

Colleen Houck

#8. I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone's weakness? Can I not have my own?

Diana Gabaldon

#9. I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

Quentin Tarantino

#10. Donald Trump can't beat Hillary Clinton, I think it's very clear, and she doesn't want to run against me, because I can beat her, because I will fight her and force her to fight on ground that she will lose on.

Carly Fiorina

#11. If I lose and have nothing when this is over, you can still drop me with my guitar by parachute anywhere in America; I'll walk to the nearest roadhouse, find a pickup band and light up your night. Just because I can.

Bruce Springsteen

#12. I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

Grimes

#13. Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

Howard Finster

#15. Because I can," he said simply. "I don't need another reason." It

Skye Warren

#16. Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

Mary Pope Osborne

#17. I promised myself that if you came home I wouldn't be afraid to tell you how I felt. But I'm still afraid. Because I can't make you love me back.

Amy Harmon

#18. Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

Suzanne Collins

#19. I should let go. But I don't. Because I can't help but notice he has that clean and freshly showered smell that makes any woman want to lean in and lick a guy's neck.

Lauren Blakely

#20. I like to take advantage of the simple-minded because I can.

Jim Cornette

#21. What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.

Cora Carmack

#22. He leans forward slightly, lips pulling back against his even, white teeth. It's so aggressive and animalistic I expect to see fangs. "I am your rightful king, Silver-born for centuries," he replies, seething. "The only reason you're still breathing is because I can't burn the oxygen from this room.

Victoria Aveyard

#23. I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.

Raymond Pettibon

#24. Why me?"
"Because I can be myself around you, even if I don't know who I am yet.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#25. I did say that I wanted to be a young mom, just because my mom was a young mom. It is better because I can be closer to my kids and stuff.

Lindsay Lohan

#26. You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

Bernie Mac

#27. I'm known as a dramatic actor. But because I don't do a lot of comedy, I love watching it because I can really immerse myself in it and not think.

Riley Smith

#28. So why don't you go home?"
Dink smiled crookedly. "Because I can't give up the game." He tugged at the fabric of his flash suit, which lay on the bunk beside him. "Because I love this.

Orson Scott Card

#29. My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

Ringo Starr

#30. I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.

Sandra Cisneros

#31. I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know? ...

Hayley Williams

#32. When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.

Richard Simmons

#33. I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

David Brenner

#34. Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

Eric Maisel

#35. We'll go by helicopter to Seattle?" "Yes." "Why?" He grins wickedly. "Because I can. Finish your breakfast." How can I eat now? I'm going to Seattle by helicopter with Christian Grey. And he wants to bite my lip ... I squirm at the thought.

E.L. James

#36. Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

Junot Diaz

#37. I like when somebody says something negative about me because I can put it back in their face

Gilbert Arenas

#38. I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.

Ernesto Bertarelli

#39. I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

John Lydon

#40. My dad once told me that one day I'd meet someone who drives me so crazy I want to strangle her and yet never would because I can't bear for her to be gone. Well, that's when I'll know I've met a woman worth keeping.

Ella Frank

#41. Difficult. Everything is difficult at the moment. Sleeping is difficult because I keep having horrible dreams. Waking up is difficult because I can't sleep. Looking in the mirror is difficult because I hate the person I see.

Sarah Darer Littman

#42. I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#43. I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

Philip Roth

#44. The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

Marlon James

#45. I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

Harold E. Hughes

#46. I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.

Innasafa

#47. It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.

Emily Procter

#48. You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

Gene Simmons

#49. I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something worth presenting because I can't rely on any kind of virtuosity to dazzle people with.

Jeffrey Lewis

#50. I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

Suzanne Vega

#51. The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience.

Sam Simon

#52. I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

Bruce McCall

#53. I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

Sadie Frost

#54. What I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

Susan Sontag

#55. When I'm around you, I feel too drunk to speak to you. And I've never even tasted alcohol before, but I'm sure kissing you is what being drunk feels like. If that's the case, I'm already worried for my sobriety because I can see myself becoming addicted to kissing you..

Colleen Hoover

#56. Because I can see them, I bridge life and death, and they hope I can open for them the door they are afraid to open for themselves.

Dean Koontz

#57. And?" he murmurs.

"And . . . sapphire." My voice fades into a whisper.

"For the angel of Joy."

"Joy?" Magiano smiles, gently this time.

"Yes." I look down, overwhelmed by sudden sadness.
"Because I can see so much of it in you.

Marie Lu

#58. I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.

Christopher Moore

#59. I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!

Tony Horton

#60. I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

Elaine Stritch

#61. I'm writing because I can't speak anything.

Tri Em

#62. I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Robert Smith

#63. I want to be queen of this great country not because someone is holding my hand,but because I can do it.Me.Elisa.

Rae Carson

#64. I look at you because I can't look away.

Amanda Hocking

#65. I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken

Veronica Roth

#66. It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

David Hockney

#67. Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.

MyAnna Buring

#68. You know, I can see more than just the future or the past."
"Really?" I asked, paging through through the papers in the file. "Can you also see the present? Because I can do that, too. Like, right now, I sense that I'm in a messy room with a total toolbox.

Rachel Hawkins

#69. My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

Jennifer Hudson

#70. Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.

Diplo

#71. Sometimes, I act indifferently to get your attention, You take all my worries and pain away, and fill my days with joy. I feel good taking suggestions from you not because I can't make decisions alone but because, you complete me.

Anuj Tiwari

#72. I just turn the record in. I don't think about the commercialism of it, but rather what's getting me off. That's why I stay in this business, because I can still afford to do exactly what I want to do.

Michael Hedges

#73. I've got to wear sunglasses everywhere, all the time, even if its indoors or at night time, to be recognized. That's part of my job. I cannot take off my sunglasses. For me, staying in the United States was so dark because I can't take them off.

Psy

#74. Why the war paint, Pix?
Because I can't stand the girl underneath....
"Why the tattoos ?"
Because I can't bear seeing the scars of my past.

Tillie Cole

#75. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

George Meyer

#76. I don't need anyone. Because I can do every single thing that a person in a relationship can. Everything. Even zip up my own dress. You know, there are some things that are actually harder to do with two people. Such as monologues.

LIZ

#77. I love you because I can be honest with you. I trust you. I love you because you've made me see I'm more than I thought.

Barbara Elsborg

#78. Can you feel the ties that bind us? Can you feel them tightening? Because I can, they're so tight that I can scarcely breathe.

Nenia Campbell

#79. Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

Demetri Martin

#80. Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

Charlaine Harris

#81. A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm.

Jason Clarke

#82. Why am I good to you?" he repeated, his lips brushing against mine as he spoke.
"Because I can see you are broken. And I want nothing more than to put you back together.

Karina Halle

#83. Is this some sort of boys' weekend that I'm not supposed to intrude on? Because I can totally leave before they hurt themselves trying to lie convincingly.

Abigail Roux

#84. Somedays, I feel as if I'm Marc Anthony ... and not because I can sing!

Jose N. Harris

#85. I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

Chita Rivera

#86. A range of reasons to go with a range of individuals, my dear: some wish to restore lost glories, some wish to alter the status quo, some wish to bring harm to others. In my case I do it for the most personal of reasons - because I like it and because I can.

Andy Chambers

#87. Because I can't stay away from you, Violet. I don't want to. I know I should. But I need you. I need to have you, to be with you. I need to see if I can be the man you make me want to be.

M. Leighton

#88. To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

Vicente Fox

#89. I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.

Maurice Sendak

#90. I like my hair long, and I love my bangs. I love them because I can pin them back or keep the fringe with attitude.

Cassie Steele

#91. Every role I do is a dream role for me because I can't imagine I'm doing it.

Genelia D'Souza

#92. If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

Berti Vogts

#93. from Pure Healing

Just because I can't throw away my virginity at the closest dick on hand doesn't mean I can't date

Aja James

#94. I can endure more pain then anyone you've met. That's why I win, because I can endure more pain.

Steve Prefontaine

#95. I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

Howard Zinn

#96. I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.

Nick Harkaway

#97. Just let me love you, December, because I can't stop anyways. I've been at your mercy since I was eighteen.

Rebecca Yarros

#98. Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

Melina Marchetta

#99. Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

Jeffrey Wright

#100. I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Nicolas Cage