Top 100 Why Do I Quotes
#2. Why do I suddenly feel like I'm on the Island of Misfit Toys?
Allison Pang
#3. Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
Klaus Kinski
#4. If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre. [Running Scared, p. 111]
Edward T. Welch
#5. Now why do I feel like Little Red Riding Hood?" Daisy asked.
Trav flashed a toothy smile and lunged for her neck. She squealed and squirmed, but he held on and chomped gently down her neck.
She smacked his arm because she liked that a little too much. "Back off, Big Bad Wolf.
Kylie Gilmore
#6. I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'
Fergie
#7. Why should I let you take it?" "Because you owe me." "Why do I owe you?" "Because I put up with you.
Karen Marie Moning
#8. Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?
Charlie Kaufman
#9. Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?
Dylan Moran
#10. Sometimes I'll write a tweet that I'll just be like, 'Why do I have to say this to all of these people?' It's like writing a Facebook status: it's the same. I view tweeting as like writing a Facebook status. Remember when we used to write statuses?
Ansel Elgort
#11. Why do I read? To know that I am alive. To know that hope and humanity exist in the world. To remember that some people spend years of their life, not watching reality TV or pornography, but trying to create something meaningful and lasting and beautiful. I read to know what is possible.
Gea Haff
#12. Why do I even care? It shouldn't hurt this much.
Marie Lu
#13. Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail.
Fabrizio De Andre
#15. Brenna's eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead.
"Why do I keep telling you things I swore I'd take to my grave?"
The contact shot electricity through his nerves. "Because you know I'll always be your shield against the nightmares.
Nalini Singh
#16. Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
James Lee Burke
#17. Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.
Doris Lessing
#18. Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that ... "
Sasha Grey
#19. I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy ... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?
Branch Rickey
#20. I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I ... because ... ugh!
Jean-Paul Sartre
#21. Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?
Blake Butler
#22. Why do I do such things.
I hope the answer is that I embrace life with abandon. But I fear the truth is that I'm irresponsible.
Bill Callahan
#23. Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#24. Why do I always sound like the chick in this relationship?
Olivia Cunning
#25. Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#26. I don't glorify the dead. If I didn't care if they were still alive, why do I even bother when they are dead. If I love a person when they are still alive, they will remain in my mind and in my heart when they die.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#27. Why do I write love stories? Because nothing else matters...
Ben Starling
#28. Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!
Hillary Clinton
#29. Let's talk about the hair. Why do I call it "yellow" hair and not "blond" hair? Because I'm pretty sure everybody calls my hair "brown." When I read fairy tales to my daughter I always change the word "blond" to "yellow," because I don't want her to think that blond hair is somehow better.
Tina Fey
#30. Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.
Michelle Kwan
#31. Why do I always have to remind you to look to where the danger waits, Warrior. Sheesh, what would you do without me?
"Uh, not be a murderous psycho?"
Very funny.
H.D. Gordon
#32. Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
Emile Zola
#33. I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!
Kaley Cuoco
#34. Why do I have to pay a reconnect fee when you all made the mistake?
Jon Jones
#35. Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
Rod Serling
#36. Why do I smile
and pretend
I am okay
when I'm
pissed off.
It's like I'm
scared to hurt
their feelings
even though
they have hurt mine.
Tina J. Richardson
#37. Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Gary Kemp
#38. Why do I do it, when it always hurts me? Why must we test the pain? Tongue the ulcer, rub the blister, pick the scab?
Joe Abercrombie
#39. Is he following? Can you have a flaming gay moment or something and check?"
"Why do I have to be the flaming gay one?
Finn Marlowe
#40. Why do I wish for anything? I just end up wanting what I had before.
Lola Lola
#41. When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#42. Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry.
Tracy Guzeman
#43. Why do I always think and dream the most awful things and want to scream in terror?
Anne Frank
#44. Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run.
Kelly Holmes
#45. I usually have two feelings about service. The first is when I'm going to give service I feel as they I don't like doing this and why do I have to do it. The second is when I give service I walk away feeling very good about what I did and having gratitude for the opportunity.
Randall Wright
#46. They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
Jodi Picoult
#47. Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?
Michael Bay
#48. Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
John Osborne
#49. You're seventeen! Why do I have to keep reminding you of that? There are soooo many women you haven't even met yet! Don't act like you're tired of the puss-puss, no guy is ever tired of the puss-puss.
Sara Wolf
#50. Why I read that?? Watch that??
Listen to that?? Be a part of that??
YOu are like asking why do I even live... okay... okay!
It's not so far, but I do it to have what to share around the people to show people as examples and to feel glad about what I know and I will learn.
Deyth Banger
#51. I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?
Nicole Holofcener
#52. Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!
Carlo Ancelotti
#53. What about me?" I choke. "Do you owe me something? I was just as wasted as she was. Why do I get driven home and kept safe but not her? Why not just leave me to Dooney and Deacon and the boys in the basement?
Aaron Hartzler
#54. Why do I have the compulsion to caution you strenuously against going up those stairs, Windham? Perhaps you'll be swarmed by bats or set upon by little ghoulies with crossbows." "Oh, for God's sake, what could be hiding in an empty old carriage house?" ***
Grace Burrowes
#55. Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?
Stephen King
#56. Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love,' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.
Sara Douglass
#57. I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"
Romola Garai
#58. He followed her down the corridor. "Don't walk away from me. I'd like some answers here. Whose invitation did I just accept, and what does that slimy prig want of you? And why do I come in third in your affections behind the slimy prig and a squashed beetle?"
-Logan
Tessa Dare
#59. For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#60. Why do I feel like this is our destiny. There must be a reason why we have become our characters.
David Kuklis
#61. As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't cook chapatis at home. I'd always say, 'Why do I have to do it? Why don't the men do it?'
Gurinder Chadha
#62. The place I belong...Maybe it did exist. I was too stupid and stubborn to notice it, but what I really wished for back then was here. Why do I always see these things after they're done and gone?
Kentaro Miura
#63. But I already know you," he said with an easy smile. "Why do I have to know anyone else?
Karina Halle
#64. I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'
Mattie Stepanek
#65. But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.
Virginia Woolf
#66. If Im so brave, why do I feel like I might just ...
scream?
Maria Padian
#67. Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence?
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
#68. Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
Candace Bushnell
#69. I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of the Father? 9
J.P. Moreland
#70. We're in America; why do I have to "Press 1" for English?
Allan Hall
#71. Why do I love him? ... I don't think love has a reason ... I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#72. Damn it, why does he have to be so damn beautiful? And why do I have to be so damn aware of it?
Rick Yancey
#73. There's another uncomfortable tug on my heart. Why do I care so much about him, and why do I wish I didn't? How can one person make me so confused all the time?
Stephanie Perkins
#74. Why do I want you? Because you are smart. Because you are beautiful. Because you make me laugh. Because you are sensual and passionate and the way you give me your body drives me absolutely fucking wild, and now I am rock-hard again for you. There. Satisfied?
Lauren Blakely
#75. Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.
Donna Lynn Hope
#76. The cell phone in my pocket went off. Shit! Damn it! Why do I carry these infernal gadgets? Why does anybody in their right mind need to constantly be on call?
James Patterson
#77. I'm a total bookworm, too. I figure, why do I need a guy in my bed when I can just fall asleep with my Kindle?
Komal Kant
#78. Why do I have to follow CNN on Twitter? If I want to follow CNN, I can follow them on CNN.
Jon Stewart
#80. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
Martial
#81. I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?
Eric Dane
#82. Envy asks, "Why them? Why do they get what I don't have?" Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?" David
Rick Warren
#83. Why do I get the feeling, interjected Cheops, that shit and fan are moving into conjunction, and that we might be in the way?
Neal Asher
#84. Why do I let you do this to me?" Adam panted against his face, damp and warm, and heartbeat racing in his chest. "How do you ruin me like this?
Santino Hassell
#85. You see," I explained to Joshua, "what Joy is doing is ironic, yet that's not her intent. That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm."
"No kidding?" said Josh.
"Why do I waste my time with you?
Christopher Moore
#86. Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and
freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning any
more. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember
all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist
writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.
Arnold Wesker
#87. A man said to a Dervish: "Why do I not see you more often?" The Dervish replied, "Because the words 'Why have you not been to see me?' are sweeter to my ear than the words 'Why have you come again?
Robert Greene
#88. If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with? And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.
Dorianne Laux
#89. I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.
S.E. Hinton
#90. A lot of people got something to prove. If I had something to prove, I proved it already, so why do I have to go showboat? Like, I don't say I got the hottest song in the world. And, personally, I think otherwise.
Fetty Wap
#91. Why do I put up with your shit?" "Because," Amos said, starting to strip an assault rifle down to its component parts, "I'm the only one on the ship that can keep the coffee maker running.
James S.A. Corey
#92. If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
Anne Wojcicki
#93. There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#94. I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
Charles Bukowski
#95. This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? On
Margaret Atwood
#96. Why do I feel like love and irritation go hand in hand with you?
Colleen Hoover
#97. Like, why do I speak? Why did God give me a mouth if I'm just going to say dumb stuff with it?
Jenny Han
#98. Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?"
"Because it exists.
Leo Tolstoy
#99. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
Margaret Atwood
#100. Why do I, Mandy Moore, get a record deal?
Mandy Moore
