Top 100 Why Do They Quotes
#1. I'm not buried in that plot, Karoline. Some woman claiming to be me from the future is."
"Why do they call it a plot, anyway?"
"Because this is how every story ends.
Brian K. Vaughan
#2. If the Japanese are so smart, why do they eat with sticks?
Jerry Lawler
#3. Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
Douglas Adams
#4. Why do they believe that?" "Because we are hackers," Csongor said, "and they have seen movies.
Neal Stephenson
#5. Why temples? thought Moist, as he looked up at the facade of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork. Why do they always build banks to look like temples, despite the fact that several major religions (a) are canonically against what they do inside and (b) bank there?
Terry Pratchett
#6. Q: Is 30 Rock the most racist show on television? A: No, in my opinion it's NFL football. Why do they portray all those guys as murderers and rapists?
Tina Fey
#7. 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
#8. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
George Carlin
#9. Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.
Scarlett Johansson
#10. I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.
Anna Funder
#11. You ever wonder why people get out of bed in the morning? why do they bother? why not just drink turpentine?
Janet Fitch
#12. If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
#13. Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
Steven Wright
#14. I am demonized because I don't see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person's heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?
Cindy Sheehan
#15. I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?
Walt Disney
#16. When I leave here, will this shop vanish the way they do in the stories?" "I'm afraid so, yes." "Why do they always do that?" The old man sighed. "You know, you're the first one who ever asked me that." But
Harlan Ellison
#17. I've heard many say "I'll sell my soul to the Devil"
in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.
Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?
And the Devil if there is one wouldn't simply wait for them to condemn themselves on their own
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#18. Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?
Brandon Sanderson
#19. If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
#20. Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
John Kricfalusi
#21. Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?
Caitlin Moran
#22. I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?
Beatrice Sparks
#23. With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?
Kris Gopalakrishnan
#24. If the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year?
Duane Thomas
#25. Green vegetables are something that fascinate chefs; the ability to keep vegetables green. How do we keep them green? What makes them green? Why are they green? And then that sort of army green. Why do they go from bright vibrant electric green to army green, and how can we avoid that?
Wylie Dufresne
#26. I remember how, when I lived in Paris, there was a McDonald's, and I'd always see Americans eating there and think, 'Why do they come all the way to Paris and eat at McDonald's?'
Diedrich Bader
#27. Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#28. Cold as a bitch's tit." "It's 'witch's.'" "Why? Doesn't matter," Eve said quickly. "Neither way makes sense. If somebody's a witch, why do they put up with cold tits? I'm a bitch, and twenty-four hours ago, my tits were plenty warm.
J.D. Robb
#29. They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?
Chaim Potok
#30. If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
Thomas Hobbes
#31. If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
Dan Poynter
#32. Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
George Washington
#33. Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a haemorrhoid when it's on the outside of your ass?
Billy Connolly
#35. New Rule: 12 years after 9/11 and admits yet another debate whether to bomb yet another Muslim country. America must stop asking the question: Why do they hate us?
Bill Maher
#36. Why do they need you on Molokai?"
"I'm not at liberty to say."
"'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say.
Neal Shusterman
#37. Kahnawake
November 1704
Temperature 44 degrees
"They won't let you see her," said Ruth flatly. "Now tell us, Mr. Williams, why has ransom not come? Do people have short memories or no memory? Why do they not rescue us? I get so angry sometimes."
Sometimes! thought Mercy.
Caroline B. Cooney
#38. Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?
Daron Malakian
#39. Why do they treat us like children? they said & I said why do you treat them like adults?
& their eyes opened wide & they began to laugh & talk all at once & suddenly everything looked possible again.
Brian Andreas
#40. Why do they do these things to children, Pan? Do they all hate children so much, that they want to tear them apart like this? Why do they do it?
Philip Pullman
#41. Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything?
Judy Blume
#43. Why do they call it rush hour when it lasts days and nobody can rush anywhere?
J.D. Robb
#44. Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
Gene Wolfe
#45. I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand.
Mother Teresa
#46. WHY DO THEY MAKE THINGS SO COMPLICATED? ... So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand
Paulo Coelho
#47. Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?
Sharon Creech
#48. Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
#49. Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world
to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Ayn Rand
#50. If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?
Alison Weir
#51. Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
Casey Affleck
#52. Why do they treat us so, Moash? Because they know they should be better than they are. Because they see discipline in bridgemen, and it embarrasses them. Rather than bettering themselves, they take the easier road of jeering at us.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. They don't hate us," Bobbie said, her voice tired. "They're afraid of us." "Then why do they act like they hate us?" David's father said with something like triumph. "Because that's what fear looks like when it needs someplace to go." David's
James S.A. Corey
#54. boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
Frank
#55. Why do they call it the Catholic Church? Because if they called it the Pedophiles Club, nobody would join.
Mike Golden
#56. Advil has a candy coating. It's delicious. Then it says on the bottle, do not have more than two. Then why do they have a candy coating? I cannot help myself. Let me have ten Advil, I have a sweet tooth.
Mitch Hedberg
#57. The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?
Melanie Chisholm
#58. Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it."
"You'd be surprised how many people don't.
Rachel Vincent
#59. Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again.
Dave Attell
#60. Why do people fight wars? she wondered. Why do they hurt each other this way?
Billi Tiner
#61. Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?
George Carlin
#62. Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#63. Teachers deserve respect," I explain.
"Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?
Jodi Picoult
#64. People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?
David Levithan
#65. If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.
David Shore
#66. I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they don't look good in pictures, even though they look great?
Kevin Jonas
#67. If someone had informed him that men were dying every day in the Islands for lack of a cup of rice, he would have been surprised. "Why do they insist on eating rice? Meat is so much better!
Ken Liu
#68. Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.
Francis Schaeffer
#69. I think I just never wanted to be the creepy guy where people say, 'Why do his leading ladies keep getting younger and younger, and why do they think he's so hot even though we know that the girl who's playing this part actually has a handsome boyfriend?'
Robert Downey Jr.
#70. Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
#71. Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
Pat Conroy
#72. Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
Yoko Ono
#73. I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
Andy Rooney
#74. Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#75. And I like people. I like to know what you're really up to. I'm a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?
Tom Hardy
#77. Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?
Steven Wright
#78. Why do they make you work so hard for unemployment?" "I don't know, babe. It's a shame you can't get something for absolutely nothing.
Adam Mayle
#79. If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?
Brigid Pasulka
#80. It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
Robert Stone
#81. If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
Robin Williams
#82. Then why do they hate me?
No, they don't. They are just confused. Something different always confuses others. It makes them feel uncomfortable.
E. Mellyberry
#83. Okay," Kincaid said. "Anyone have any questions?"
"Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?
Jim Butcher
#84. Why do the chimookomanag want us?" she growled. "They take all that makes us Anishinaabeg. Everything about us. First our land, then our trees. Now husbands, our wives, our children, our souls. Why do they want to capture every bit?
Louise Erdrich
#85. consider the common practice of setting up regularly occurring meetings for projects. These meetings tend to pile up and fracture schedules to the point where sustained focus during the day becomes impossible. Why do they persist? They're easier.
Cal Newport
#86. Why don't they leave? Why do they stay to watch? And now I know. It's because you have to.
Suzanne Collins
#87. I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.
Nolan North
#88. Why do they have to hide their hidden lab so well?
Jennifer Rush
#89. Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
Phylicia Rashad
#90. Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me?
Melina Marchetta
#91. Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
Faran Tahir
#92. I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this?
Norman Foster
#93. Why do they use it like that? Peace." "When you have never known a thing except to dream," Lan replied, heeling Mandarb forward, "it becomes more than a talisman.
Robert Jordan
#94. I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online.
Chelsea Handler
#95. Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."
George Carlin
#96. What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.
Richelle Mead
#97. If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games? And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.
Suzanne Collins
#98. Why aren't midwives the heroines of society that they should be? Why do they have such a low profile? They ought to be lauded to the skies, by everyone.
Jennifer Worth
#99. That's what I thought, too when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?
Harper Lee
#100. Why do they put cows over the gates, sir?"
"For the same reason we put images of a tortured man in our churches. Religion. You ask too many questions, Sharpe.
Bernard Cornwell
