Why Not Quotes - Page 4

• Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

  Daniele Vare

  Horse, Flower, Sunset

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

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• When falling in love I think you should say to yourself, ‘I am going to do this fully.’ I love to the fullest extent that I possibly can - and why not?... Maybe this means there is going to be pain, but I am willing to accept the pain.

  Nicole Kidman

  Falling In Love, Pain, Mean

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jan 23, 2017

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• 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

  Running, Home, Tvs

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• I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.

  Paul Stanley

  Guy, Want, Fans

  "Paul Stanley, from 'chunky' kid to fit KISS rocker". Interview with James S. Fell, beta.latimes.com. April 20, 2013.

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• You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

  Kaki King

  Sound, Boxes, Smack

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• Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

  Cam Gigandet

  Process

  Source: collider.com

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• If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice?

  Tyron Woodley

  Mma, Risk, Rewards

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• I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world?

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, World, Want

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• At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.

  Conor McGregor

  Mma, The End Of The Day, Way

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• The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents who are truly well cared for? Children who have an edge in school, on tests, in college and beyond? If we can afford the services involved, many if not most of us are prone to say, 'Sure, why not?

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, School, College

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• I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

  Michael Chang

  Attitude, Winning, Past

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• It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

  Antony Beevor

  Mother, Jobs, Writing

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• I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

  Bryan Adams

  Song, Doe, Film Music

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• There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?

  Isaac Asimov

  Moon, Space, Escaping

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• 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

  Nerves, Pressure, Causes

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• School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

  Julian Fellowes

  Work, School, Careers

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• The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

  Jonathan Raban

  Dream, Father, Book

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.464, Pan Macmillan

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• You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

  Catherine O'Hara

  Use, Body, Want

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• I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Art, Nice, Long

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• In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Sweet, Queens, Ivory

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Wall, Block, Soul

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• People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

  Edward Burns

  Art, Home, Thinking

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• I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Have Faith, God Is There

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• Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Guy, Salad, Bigs

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• I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

  Jane Campion

  Careers, Important, Identity

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