Why Not famous quotes
05-20-2025
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Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
-- Abraham Maslow -
I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.
-- Adam Levine -
Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
-- Alber Elbaz -
Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?
-- Alber Elbaz -
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.
-- Albert Oehlen -
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?
-- Alexander Ovechkin -
What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?
-- Andrew Dost -
As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?
-- Anne Frank -
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
-- Annie Besant -
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is
-- Arnold Rothstein -
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
-- Artie Shaw -
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
-- Ben Stein -
It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?
-- Bonnie St. John -
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?
-- Brad Paisley -
Some people look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why?' I look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why not?'
-- Brian Regan -
I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.
-- Bryan Cranston -
Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
-- Bryan Cranston -
Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?
-- Cam Gigandet -
If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?
-- Carl Sagan -
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.
-- Carl Sagan -
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
-- Carter G. Woodson -
A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.
-- Catherine Marshall -
We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.
-- Celine Dion -
Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?
-- Chalene Johnson -
You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
-- Charles Bukowski -
I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?
-- Charles Frazier -
Christina Aguilera finally announced her pregnancy. Thanks for waiting until your third trimester to get the word out—why not just wait until you’re crowning?
-- Chelsea Handler -
Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.
-- Chris Abani -
In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?
-- Chris Colfer -
Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?
-- Chris LeDoux -
We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?
-- Christian D. Larson -
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'
-- Christopher Hitchens -
If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!
-- Claire Williams -
Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
-- Clara Schumann -
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
-- Clay Shirky -
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?
-- Clint Eastwood -
I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?
-- Colleen Haskell -
At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.
-- Conor McGregor -
No one did what I did last season and for this I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player.
-- Cristiano Ronaldo -
Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off
-- D. J. MacHale -
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.
-- Dale Carnegie -
When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.
-- Dale Carnegie -
I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
-- Dane Cook -
Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?
-- Daniel D. Palmer -
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.
-- Daniel H. Pink -
Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.
-- Danielle Steel -
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
-- David Byrne -
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
-- David Gilmour -
And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?
-- Deb Caletti -
They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?
-- Dee Dee Warwick -
Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
-- Dennis Rodman -
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
-- Diogenes -
When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?
-- Donny Deutsch -
The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?
-- Donny Deutsch -
Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
-- Edward Abbey -
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
-- Edward Albee -
And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!
-- Elaine Stritch -
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?
-- Emmanuelle Beart -
I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?
-- Ewan McGregor -
Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.
-- Fanny Fern -
You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.
-- Ferran Adria -
Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
-- Frank A. Clark -
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?
-- Frank J. Tipler -
Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?
-- Fred Emery -
If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.
-- Frederick Busch -
If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?
-- Garrett Morgan -
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?
-- George Wells Beadle -
A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
-- Gertrude Atherton -
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt -
God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?
-- Grace Slick -
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
-- Gregory Maguire -
Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -
-- Hayley Williams -
My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree -
If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
-- Idries Shah -
You're screening your calls?" "Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots." "Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl. "You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(...)
-- Ilona Andrews -
As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.
-- Ilsa J. Bick -
I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.
-- Inio Asano -
Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.
-- Iris Johansen -
Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!
-- J.K. Simmons -
The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?
-- Jack Burke, Jr. -
Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver?
-- Jack Gould -
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
-- Jack Kornfield -
Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?
-- Jack LaLanne -
There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not?... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation.
-- Jakaya Kikwete -
I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?
-- James Blunt -
If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
-- James Franco -
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
-- Jamie Foxx -
I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
-- Janis Joplin -
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
-- Janis Joplin -
Why not show off if you've got something to show?
-- January Jones -
I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.
-- Jason Aldean
