A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
Despite the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in our presidential election, President Donald Trump and Republican leadership seem wholly uninterested in examining how and why Russia targeted us - and what we must do to prevent it from happening again.
There is no earthly reason why Walmart and McDonald's and Walgreens and these other giant, profitable institutions should have one worker in need of public assistance. It's ridiculous.
I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player on a roster. I don't understand why their players association condones that.
Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?
The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them?
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.
Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.
I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'