Y Quotes
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“You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.”
“You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!”
“You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.”
“You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?" "Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY.”
“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.”
“You think Jesus ever tried to talk God out of some of that stuff? 'Instead of that whole crucifixion, how about we do a big fundraiser!'”
“You think just knowing about death will keep you from dying?”
Source: The Long Walk
“You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?”
Source: Shark Dialogues
“You think language honest?” Ouster laughed for longer than was polite. “You haven’t dipped your quill yet, obviously, with that fresh outlook. Anyone who exchanges the simplest of pleasantries is a disciple of Wael. Who knows what’s really being said when words are used. A well met and farewell could start a war with what lies beneath their surface.” Ouster grunted, staring at the floor. Into memory, the boy corrected. “Best riddle ever made, stuffing our minds with feelings and wants, and then giving us the paltry fare of words with which to speak it. Though... lies have power, too. And if you repeat the words of a lie often enough...” The wry smile returned.”
Source: The House of Wael
“You think like a boxer and behave like a boxer, and you try to live your life that way, being in the gym all the time and being careful to push the plate away at the dinner table. You don't need dessert. When you're out having fun, you ask for agua instead of vodka. It's very important.”
“You think literature is supposed to make you feel safe?! It’s supposed to do quite the opposite of that, believe you me!”
Source: In Limbo
“You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.”
Source: Northanger Abbey (illustrated)
“You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?”
Source: The Sin Collector: Thomas
“You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.”
“You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are wrong. My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press... but I resist it, because fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up. I've seen it... it's fascinating.”
“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.”
“You think my kids just popped out of the ground?”
“You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.”
“You think my success is your failure. How fucking delusional. The reason you fucked up is your own fault.”
“You think not meeting the right person is sad.
Wait until life brings you the beauty of meeting
the right person at the wrong time !”
“You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.”
Source: The Queen of the Tearling
“You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.”
“You think of it [voicing] as something where you not only don't //need// your body, but you don't even have it to use! There's nothing you can do with your body that's going to show in the final product. Maybe that's all the more reason I used my body so much to get whatever noise or sounds out of it I could. When it was needed to keep the energy up I found myself almost running in place! It is very physical.”
“You think of killing him
on the spot
but discard that thought and
leave,
down into the urine-stinking
elevator,
they have you crucified too,
America at work,
where they rip out your intestines
and your brain and your
will and your spirit.
They suck you dry, then throw
you away.
The capitalist system.
The work ethic.
The profit motive.
The memory of your father’s words,
“work hard and you’ll be
appreciated.”
of course, only if you make
much more for them than they pay
you.”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
“You think of love as dizzy electricity. You think if you aren't in this heightened state, that the relationship is failing. This is a lie, an infection you contracted from pop-war music and fantasy reels, that doomed all your short romances in the academy, like with poor Sri. The bonded support you and Kodiak feel for each other isn't about skin skin skin, though it's related to that. It isn't the heat of his body against yours at the bottom of the water tank.
Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.”
“You think of love as dizzy electricity. You think if you aren't in this heightened state, that the relationship is failing. This is a lie, an infection you contracted from popular music and fantasy reels, that doomed all your short romances in the academy, like with poor Sri. The bonded support you and Kodiak feel for each other isn't about skin skin skin, though it's related to that. It isn't the heat of his body against yours at the bottom of the water tank. Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.”
Source: The Darkness Outside Us
“You think of luxury when you think of Calvin Klein. He created this lifestyle that's really desirable, so our whole project has that quality of being lasting.”
“You think of me as a sister?"
"Not anymore."
Tension snapped around us. "Oh..."
"Not for years.”
Source: The Usual Family Mayhem
“You think of me as a... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back.”
Source: Eclipse
“You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.”
Source: The Malady of Death
“You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.”
“You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.”
“You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.”
Source: Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
“You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin”
“You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.”
“You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.”
“You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.”
“You think outsourcing is an advantage? WRONG. Everyone else is outsourcing already. It has stopped being a secret weapon known only to a few and has turned into a mainstream business solution that everyone routinely utilize. Outsourcing will not get you ahead -- it will enable you to keep up and not get left behind.”
“You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.”
“You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever, and get home, and then still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.”
“You think people choose everything in their lives. Because you have spent your whole life choosing everything.”
Source: Catch the Rabbit
“You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.”
“You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!”
Source: Bonfire
“You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are born, grown, have sons, and illegitimate sons, and die.”
Source: From Here to Eternity
“You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.”
“You think school is boring? A minimum-wage job makes school look like Burning Man.”
Source: We All Looked Up
“You think sex is dirty. You have a dirty mind.”