Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You'd be so lean, that blast of January
Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,
I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
Become your time of day.”
“You'd be surprised at how much I can drink. I mean, I can really drink.”
“You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is”
“You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.”
Source: The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel
“You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.”
“You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone”
“You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”
Source: The Sugar Queen
“You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.”
Source: The Wedding
“You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday”
Source: Book of Haikus
“You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.”
“You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.”
“You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.”
“You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.”
“You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.”
“You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.”
“You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.”
Source: Pete Rose's winning baseball
“You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.”
“You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.”
“You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“You'd be surprised how much free time I have.”
“You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!”
“You'd be surprised how much you don't understand what other people see your actions as; how other people view the things you say and the things that you do. And a lot of times just clarifying what your intentions are with people makes a huge difference.”
“You'd be surprised how quickly our identities evaporate when we were able to connect with people on a very personal level because we're all really trying to chase the same dream, we are looking for the same thing, we're raising our kids, we're just trying to get along. And, right now we are able to show people, hey, I'm just a human being like you are, I've got to take care of my kids and my family just like you, how can I help you?”
“You'd be surprised how young 25-year-old girls can sound when they want to scream. It isn't that young an audience, and it really frustrates me when I read the word "prepubescent" in my reviews. Even the ones that started following me with Wham! are in their late teens by now.”
“You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.”
“You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.”
“You'd be surprised. Besides, they don't even send royal traitors to prison, Rose. Everyone knows that." I scoffed. "Are you insane? Of course they do. What else do you think they do with traitors? Set them free and tell them not to do it again?" "No," said Abe, just before he turned away. "They execute traitors.”
“You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.”
“You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?' 'It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have seen some bad taxidermy. This was top-notch work. It would have fooled anyone.”
“You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing.”
“You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.”
“You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport." "Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and turned around. "And what happens if you're wrong?" he inquired. "What happens if these soccer players do somehow get killed?" Kellner shrugged. "At least we'll know what we're dealing with," he said. "And they lost every single one of their games while they were in Nigeria. I'm sure we can put together another team.”
“You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.”
“You'd better have faith that everything happens for the best. Nothing happens in your life that isn't something that you are meant to learn to get you where you need to go so you can become who you are meant to be. And that meant-to-be might be someone you don't even know exists at this moment in time.”
“You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.”
“You'd better hope and pray
That you make it safe
Back to your own world
You'd better hope and pray
That you'll wake one day in your own world
'Cause when you sleep at night
They don't hear your cries in your own world
Only time will tell if you can break the spell
Back in your own world.”
“You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.”
“You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.”
“You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.”
“You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is there another way to do the same thing, and what's the down side? What's the repercussions if I do this? To my career, to my family, whatever else.”
“You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.”
“You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby”
“You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.”
“You'd better stop readin' and writin' and start hittin' !”
“You'd better talk to my dad. My mom's pretty busy.”
“You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been”