#why

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#because #compared #fewer #look #lot

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#begin #i #mine #never #poem

I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag? ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#band #even #get #got #i

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#believe #fail #god #i #i believe

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#attorney general #because #clients #doing #general

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#health #health care #just #nation #no reason

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#about #after #always #bank #believe

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#avenue #brand #done #harlem #know

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#come #gone #movies #out #powerful