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 speak for the people unless you're able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?”
“You can't speak freely and openly on the most important issue of the day because you're fearful that your closet is going to come and haunt you. I choose to air my closet.”
“You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!”
Source: The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
“You can't speak openly about everything.”
“You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'”
“You can't spell bass without ass”
“You can't spell believe without a lie in the middle.”
“You can't spell Citrus without UT”
“You can't spell squirrel without si, and that's me.”
Source: Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle
“You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.”
“You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.”
“You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.”
Source: The Looking Glass Wars
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.”
Source: To the Castle and Back
“You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.”
“You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.”
Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s
“You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.”
Source: Rite of passage
“You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.”
“You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.”
Source: Someone to Watch Over Me: A Novel
“You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.”
Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.”
“You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.”
“You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.”
“You can't start a fire in the pouring rain.”
“You can't start a fire without a spark”
“You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark”
“You can't start a movement, but you can prepare for one”
“You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.”
“You can't start at the top.”
“You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.”
“You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize." If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.”
“You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.”
“You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.”
“You can't start the next chapter of your life”
“You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.”
“You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.”
“You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.”
“You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to explain the designer, who must be, if anything, an even more statistically improbable and elegant thing.”
“You can't stay in one place. If you stay in one place you die. So you have to move forward.”
“You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.”
“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
“You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.”
“You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.”
“You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.”
“You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.”
“You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.”
Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.”
“You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.”
“You can't steal my joy because you didn't give it to me! Blessed.”