Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You should have seen him,” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.”
Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
“You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.”
“You should have seen the costumes for the last few prom themes: Pimps and their srteet ho's; CEOs and their office ho's; GI Joes and their combat ho's; Gardeners and their garden hose;Firemen and their fire hose... If you ask me, a 'masquerade' theme isn't flattering for anyones features, nor does it define the apppropriate gender roles very clearly.”
“You should have seen the look on your skull.”
“You should have seen the stare down between him and Vicious. Vicious straight up asked him if he was his Made-in-China version.”
Source: Scandalous
“You should have seen this coming,’ they said. I did see it coming. I saw it coming the way you see a train coming when you’re tied to the tracks.”
“You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.”
“You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“You should have some time to think and that's very important.”
“You should have stayed asleep”
Source: What She Walked Into
“You should have stayed with your sister.”
“Why? She doesn’t need me.” I tilt my head, studying him. “You don’t need me, either, not really. I’m not going to lie—I’m probably going to be shitty company on this trip. I’m going to be slow as molasses, and I’m not very strong. But you do need a friend…and I can be that for you.”
He covers the hands I have on his cheeks with his own, and then lifts my hands to kiss each palm. “Are we just friends, Mah-dee? You know you have my heart.”
Source: Barbarian's Taming
“You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.”
Source: Legend
“You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.”
“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.”
“You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. 'You should have said it was really annoying, but I'd made you promise to come along to the Three Broomsticks, and you really didn't want to go, you'd much rather spend the whole day with her, but unfortunately you thought you really ought to meet me and would she please, please come along with you, and hopefully you'd be able to get away more quickly? And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am too,' Hermione added as an afterthought.
'But I don't think you're ugly,' said Harry, bemused.
Hermione laughed.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“You should have told me you were into vampires.” I grin, leaning in close to her neck until her breath stills, like she’s anticipating. Lowering my voice, I say, “You know, I can make that scene come true.”
Source: Saved by Your Hot Book Boyfriend
“You should have tried the eggplant parmesan she tried to hoist on me at the church bake sale. No wonder her children turned to Satan. He probably showed up as an angel of light and promised them a decent meal.”
Source: The Book of Polly
“You should have worn a baby pink t-shirt on which a child sucks his thumb. That would have given you the required juvenile look.
~ Subhangi Tyagi”
Source: #iAm16iCan
“You should hear mama on the chapter of governesses: Mary and I have had, I should think, a dozen at least in our day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi - were they not, mama?" Blanche Ingram”
“You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.”
“You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.”
“You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!”
“You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.”
“You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it”
“You should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.”
“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“You should impact the greatest amount of people that you can in your life.”
“You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.”
Source: Poems
“You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.”
“You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.”
“You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.”
“You should just do the right thing.”
“You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.”
“You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.”
“You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.”
“You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.”
“You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.”
Source: After You
“You should just tell him what you want him to do. Before he gets the wrong idea. This might be your last chance. Nothing’s going to change if you’re just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else’s problems, you can’t fix it for them. If you’re putting it off because you’ve got this ideal that reality can never match, just think, isn’t it better to regret things you’ve done, than regret things you’ve never even tried?”
Source: Solanin Vol. 1, 2
“You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.”
“You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire”
“You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.”
Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess
“You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.”
“You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.”
“You should keep the doors open as some of the employees would like to come back after experiencing the harsh reality of the world outside.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“You should kill yourself, GreenHollyWood said "You fucking scumbag.”
Source: The Life of One Kid 2
“You should kiss me again, often, so I don’t become irritated.”
He lowered his head teasing, smiling against her lips.
“But if you’re irritated then I can enjoy the process of fixing it.”
Source: To Capture His Heart
“You should kiss me like it’s goodbye.”
Source: Less
“You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.”