A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.
Why do Tea Party backers oppose abortion at higher rates than their traditional GOP cohort? Religion.
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
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.
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.
Why can't we be Greece in the Euros? Why can't we be Leicester in the Premier League? Tell me why not.
Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.
How can I shave in the midst of guerrilla warfare? On battlefields, we have no facilities for shaving, and that was why I first grew my beard.
We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
I didn't know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brulee?
130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.
