#why

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. ↗

— David Bowie

#artifice #artist #believe #changing #contemporaries

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#approach #characters #endow #female #female characters

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#after #art #became #because #i

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

#because #bugs #children #explain #feeling

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#environment #every #every time #forest #i

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ↗

— Edith Evans

#behaves #like #man #nice #she

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say? ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#i #read #say #want #why

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments. ↗

— James Brady

#departments #get #go #home #license

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career. ↗