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• Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can’t explain it. They really can’t translate feeling because they’re not part of it. That’s why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.

  Bill Evans

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Reason

• In a very simple sense I want everything that’s in a work to be there for the reason that it’s needed. It’s not an ornamentation. It’s not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

  Paul Cullen

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Reason

• After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics… who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

  Frank Rich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Problems, Remembered

• I can’t say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

  Paul Charles Caravello

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Reason

• The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

  Frank Murphy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Schools

• We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

  Frank Murphy

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Reason, Constitutional

• I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

  Frank Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thoughts, Political, Reason

• For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Rest

• The reason there’s so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Ignorance

• I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Hair

• The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason

• It’s one of the reasons I don’t do drugs. One sniff and I’d go all the way.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason

• One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

  Bernie Taupin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason

• The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trouble, Reason

• I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

  Ben Stiller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason

• If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

  Francis Quarles

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire, Reason, Proud

• Youth doesn’t reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

  Francis Picabia

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Make
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  Love’s reason’s without reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Reason

• The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

  Ben Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason

• A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him

  Ben Hecht

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Reason