Y Quotes
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“You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.”
“You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.”
Source: Mr g: A Novel About the Creation
“You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.”
“You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?”
“You've met Nick?" "Yep, we've met, all right. He was kind enough to inform me that I have absolutely no say in whether you two date." "Well, you don't." "You know, you all could at least pretend that my opinion makes a difference.”
“You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either.”
Source: Faefever: Fever Series
“You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.”
“You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.”
“You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.”
“You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain food," Four says, nodding at Christina. "Why?" she asks. I shrug. "Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary." She smirks. "No wonder you left." "Yeah," I say,rolling my eyes. "It was just because of the food." The corner of Four's mouth twitches.”
“You've never had a job that you thought was secure. You don't think the Tonight Show is risk free. Especially when you saw what happened with your buddy Conan O'Brien. There is always a Plan B.I am ready to apply to the post office.”
“You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.”
“You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.”
“You've never heard of them- and you never will .”
“You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.”
“You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.”
“You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.”
“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
“You've never met a more flawed guy than me.”
“You've never seen anything in the Marvel universe that's as grounded, as gritty, as authentic, and as raw as what these guys did last year [in Season 1 of Daredevil]. What an amazing place to bring this character into, to attempt to up the stakes and to make it more dangerous. Hopefully, we were able to do that. But as far as those movies, my concern is this show.”
“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”
“You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.”
“You've never seen me dance, have you?”
“You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts.”
“You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.”
Source: Skybreaker
“You've no future unless you add value, create projects.”
“You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.”
Source: The last battle
“You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.”
Source: Love in a Cold Climate
“You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.”
Source: Judas Unchained
“You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“You've noticed that same joke told by two different people, once works, and the other time doesn't, simply because how the person edits it. The silences, the pauses, what they neglect, what they emphasize - all of this matters.”
“You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.”
“You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.”
“You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.”
“You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.”
“You've only got so long to live.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!”
Source: The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister
“You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”
Source: Greatest Works of Anton Chekhov: Plays, Short Stories, Novel and A Biography (Including The Steppe, Ward No. 6, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, On Trial, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, After the Theatre and many more)
“You've only got to walk into a pub or a café or anything and you'll find people talking about topics they're very unhappy with. You feel as though things are being eroded and people don't know where they belong anymore.”
“You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.”
“You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-”
“You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?”
“You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.”
“You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until people were ready to make use of it. The same thing happens in literary circles. The truth is, I'm not terribly interested in Victorian times; I'm interested in Victorian writers. I'm interested in most eras of history, but not the Victorian Era especially. I was interested in the John Franklin Expedition. I was interested in these last five weird years of Dickens' life. And I just have to take the age that comes with all that when I write about it.”
“You've probably heard the term, 'red flag warning.' That means there are extreme conditions. Low humidity, high temperatures. The fuels are extremely dry and volatile. We classify those in East Tennessee as 'fire days' so if your fire class day is a 1, it's relatively low. A class 5 day would be an extremely high danger day. A day like Sunday would be a 4 or a 5.”
“You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.”
“You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.”
“You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.”
“You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.”
“You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.”
Source: Dead in Dixie