Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You can't expect success. It's a process. Part of getting to success is failure.”
“You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.”
“You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.”
“You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.”
“You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.”
“You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.”
“You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.”
“You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.”
“You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.”
“You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.”
“You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.”
“You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.”
“You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.”
“You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.”
“You can't expect your children to be perfect.”
“You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.”
“You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.”
“You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.”
“You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.”
“You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.”
“You can't express inspiration without skill.”
“You can't fail if you don't quit.
You can't succeed if you don't start.”
“You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.”
“You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.”
“You can't fake authenticity.”
Source: The Tao of Twitter, Revised and Expanded New Edition: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time
“You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.”
“You can't fake being able to cook well.”
“You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.”
“You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.”
“You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.”
“You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.”
Source: JPod
“You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.”
“You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.”
“You can't fake listening. It shows.”
“You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.”
Source: The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End
“You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”
Source: The Western Lands
“You can't fake some of this chemistry, even when you get a guy and a girl and they've got to be together.”
“You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.”
“You can't fake wrestling. We can fake punch, but with wrestling you just have to go ahead and do it. You really need to see the hand hit the face, the head butting and everything.”
“You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.”
“You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.”
“You can't fatten the pig on market day.”
“You can't fault people for who they vote for, who they don't vote for.”
“You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.”
“You can't feel happy unless you feel free.”
“You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.”
“You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.”
“You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.”
“You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.”
Source: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.”
Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?