Reason Quotes - Page 106

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

I'm a person who's coming New York because of the magnetism of the people. I'm not coming because of expectations. I'm coming here because it's a very natural way of sharing. That's the reason. And also friends - I love to be with people I can't meet in Warsaw.

I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

I've always been very interested in ensemble work. One reason why I don't go out and do a stand-up act is that I did it once and I found it unsatisfying. I don't really like being out there by myself. I like reacting with other people.

You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.

Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same basic belief, that the idea of magnetism attracting something was not the reason why the effects of what we call gravity occur.

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there .

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].