Y Quotes
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“You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it.”
Source: A Christmas Revelation
“You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.”
“You could make something amazing out of something awful.”
Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope
“You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of time at the keyboard but finding ways I could make my fingers reproduce my deepest feelings. It meant, when you hit a note with a finger, you sank into that note all the way to the bottom of the keyboard until it went pow! Right?”
“You could marry somebody else." I hardly got the words out. "It's legal."
"When I want somebody else, I'll find somebody else," Big Roy said. "But if all I want is a meal, then I'll cook.”
Source: An American Marriage
“You could maybe go to a music school and actually meet girls who know how to play the
bass. Typically the ones you pick up in bars only know how to unzip your pants.”
Source: While It Lasts
“You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.”
“You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do.”
Source: The Razorland Trilogy
“You could move to Europe." "You know, I've actually been considering that lately." Kai laughed again, the warmth returning to the sound. "If that's not a vote of confidence, I don't know what is.”
“You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.”
“You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.”
“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.”
“You could never be a weakness,” he growled. Ever. She could only ever be his everything.”
Source: Sentinel of Darkness
“You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one.”
“You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.”
Source: Joy For Beginners
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. "
-- Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, p32”
“You could never hate me as much as you want me.”
Source: On Wings of Blood
“You could never in a million years have told me Prince would not be here today.”
“You could never kill a wyte, child. Instead of thinking of death, you need to think in terms of aging. The old cannot help but become less ambitious and more accepting as each moment ticks on by.”
Source: Ghost Doors
“You could never look awful,' he said faintly.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“You could never mistake the sound of true grief, once you had felt it yourself. It made the mettle of the soul ring in sympathy, like one bell softly chiming whenever its neighbor was struck.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
“You could never not draw attention,” he finally said. “And it has nothing to do with you being blind.”
Source: Kill Switch
“You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.”
“You could never really know what was happening inside someone else's head. But you could try. Watch the windows of the house patiently until a momentary gust of wind pushes the curtain aside. Then peer in. And fill in the missing pieces in your mind.”
Source: Waking Lions
“You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.”
Source: Galileo's Dream
“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“You could not be born at a better time than the present, when we have lost everything.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.”
“You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.”
“You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.”
“You could not believe your luck. What a time to be broken. It's not luck, someone said, you asked for it.”
Source: Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac
“You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.”
Source: North to freedom
“You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.”
“You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“You could not have done it better than Hughes.”
“You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.”
“You could not have had a conversation about women’s right to vote and men’s need to grant it without naming women and men. (...) Naming who has access and who doesn’t guides our efforts in challenging injustice.”
Source: White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“You could not have known he was going to leave Spicy Brunette at the altar for Cute Blondie unless you'd seen this before. I think I've been played," Benny huffs as he finishes off the last fry.
"Think about what you're saying, Ben Kenobi. Spicy versus cute. We're never supposed to like the spicy woman in movies, not for the romantic hero to end up with. He's supposed to go with the aw-shucks, girl-next-door type who was right in front of his face all along. Spicy gal never had a chance, bless her heart."
He scrunches his nose, mulling this over. "Then I have a dilemma, see," he says, and his feigned thoughtfulness makes me smirk.
"Oh, do you?"
"Yeah, because what if I'm into this girl who's cute but also spicy? Is she too good to be true? Can I really have one or the other?”
Source: Love from Scratch
“You could not have put it more bluntly that the real writer isn't in this picture but rather is found in the text," Emilia said, impressed.
Jonson smirked. "Yes, well, you're a playwright. You know that sometimes the audience is clay-brained.”
Source: By Any Other Name
“You could not have wished to be born at a better time than this, when everything is lost.”
Source: First and last notebooks
“You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.”
“You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.”
Source: The Fixer
“You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.”
“You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.”
“You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
“You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.”
Source: Capital
“You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.”
“You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.”
Source: Sixth of the Dusk
“You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.”
“You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars