Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You want adaptability in what you're wearing and freedom of movement. You can have all these advantages at your fingertips by carrying a tote bag- which I sincerely believe is the best thing that's happened to women since the vote.”
“You want Alicia to feel, yes. But remember, with greater feeling comes greater danger.”
“You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.”
“You want an apology because I disciplined you? Absolutely...not!”
“You want an experience to leave you cleansed, refreshed, and forgiven.”
Source: Mistress on Her Knees
“You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.”
“You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.”
“You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.”
“You want an Open title by your name. To finally get it, even though it's a Senior Open, I still regard it as a very high honor.”
“You want another joke? After Chernobyl you can eat anything you want, but you have to bury your own shit in lead.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“You want appreciation. Even though you like what's happening now doesn't mean that you still don't want appreciation or greater stimulation. It just means you're not using something in your now as your excuse to not let in all those things that you've been wanting. The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more.”
“You want ass? The cash is first.
You got dead presidents, baby, I got a hearse in my purse.”
“You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.”
“You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me.”
“You want attention, you want to grab some of that airspace that exists out there in a world that's very difficult to get it because it's so competitive and to get it for more than a few seconds. Any attention is good and that can be what we would normally consider as bad attention so I wanted to make you aware of that dynamic.”
“You want baby daddy to be one step ahead of you. Which they can't be, so it's a weird thing to ask for. But I have.”
“You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.”
Source: Hallowe'en party
“You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.”
“You want books? We're in a library-books! The best weapons in the world!
-Tenth Doctor”
“You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.”
“You want capital - that’s all you want.’
‘Yes; but you might as well say that breath is all a dead man wants to live.”
“You want change?
You have to BE the change.
You have to widen the range.
Your ideas have to be original and strange!”
Source: Be Careful What You Wish For
“You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.”
“You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.”
“You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.”
“You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.”
“You want every senior go out like the seniors did last year having the best year of their career. But that's not reality. It's not going to work that way for everybody. But I think Moe's attitude has been fantastic.”
“You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so you want to flush them out. You've got to show all sides of them. There is definitely an antagonistic relationship between guards and prisoners, and I do think it flares up.”
“You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.”
“You want everyone to succeed in your family.”
“You want everything for your kids that you didn't have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic American pluckiness, resourcefulness and down-to-earthness that we like to pride ourselves with, and result in aspirations of wealth and high culture.”
“You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn.”
“You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.”
“You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.”
“You want fame? Well, fame cost. And right here honey is where you start paying in sweat"- FAME.
DEBBIE ALLEN”
“You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds.
And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life.”
Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
“You want flowers, I'll buy your ass a rose,
But later on you're comin' out them pantyhose.”
“You want fucked?”
Source: A Jade's Trick
“You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.”
“You want happy endings, read cookbooks.”
Source: Embryoyo
“You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.”
“You want her to be the way you want her to be, rather than seeing her the way she is.”
Source: The Sun Rises in Eastmoor
“You want him praising the Lord in the morning, you put a smile on his face tonight.”
Source: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage
“You want him to pay, just like I do. I saw you before he did that to you. I saw you when you were beautiful. You still turn heads, but for all the wrong reasons now.”
Source: Bleeding
“You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?”
“You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.”
“You want inspiration to come in a natural way and let it happen when it's going to happen. The last thing you want is this ghost looming over you saying "it has to be good" - remember that feeling of loving what you do, and don't let the business aspect murder that. It takes away the creativity for me.”
“You want it back?"
She shook her head. "Keep it." Keep me.
"Will do," he said, walking around the bike. Walking straight up to her without blinking. "Do you still have mine?"
"Of course," she said. "In a box. Inside another box."
His fingers came up too her face and wiped new tears away as she blinked them free.
"And if I wanted it back?" he said so softly she barely heard it.
"Not a chance in hell," she whispered.
A smile spread slowly across his lips. "That's my girl.”
Source: The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
“You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?”
“you want. it. so much.
but nothing is eternal.
everything is ephemeral.
you must. accept.
one day He will call.
and you will have to follow.
so every day. enjoy
~ life.”