Top 64 Cy Quotes
#1. I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game.
R.A. Dickey
#2. I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.
John Waters
#3. One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
Cy Young
#4. If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.
Justin Verlander
#5. Flash grenades - a weapon used in China. Ingrid shivered as Cy's comments suddenly made sense. Chinatown was so close. She was so close to the Chinese, to Lee and Jiao. So close, and so oblivious. Despite
Beth Cato
#6. If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.
Hamilton Jordan
#7. I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
Edmund White
#8. Who doesn't want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn't grow up wanting to be the best? I'm no different. I want to be the best. I've always wanted to be the best.
R.A. Dickey
#10. She felt like the crushed petals of a violet, dark and limp. No, no, no. She bit her knuckle until she tasted blood. Cy was gone.
Rae Meadows
#11. When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.
Tris Speaker
#12. All the computers in the world are on a network. They're linked by our cuffs. But I'm a computer. Jack's a computer - Akilah - PA Young - all the cy-clones. We're all computers.
You know the great thing about computers?
They can be hacked.
Beth Revis
#13. A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.
Sarah Hall
#14. I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
Pete Rose
#15. A salesman is an it that stinks to please
but whether to please itself or someone else
makes no more difference than if it sells
hate condoms education snakeoil vac
uumcleaners terror strawberries democ
ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair
E. E. Cummings
#16. Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do.
~Gem
Larissa Ione
#18. Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'
Cy Twombly
#19. I never really separated painting and literature.
Cy Twombly
#20. Whether you believe something possible or impossible -- either way, you will be right.
Cy Wakeman
#22. I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
Cy Coleman
#23. We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.
Cy Coleman
#24. I had my freedom and that was nice
Cy Twombly
#25. I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.
Cy Twombly
#26. The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.
Cy Twombly
#27. All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.
Cy Young
#28. Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.
Cy Young
#29. I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
Cy Twombly
#30. To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
Cy Twombly
#31. When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.
Cy Thao
#32. When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
Cy Coleman
#33. A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.
Cy Young
#34. It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.
Cy Twombly
#35. I'm not an abstractionist completely.
Cy Twombly
#36. I'm trying to get hold of them ... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.
Cy Coleman
#37. I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.
Cy Twombly
#39. Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.
Cy Twombly
#40. Virginia is a good start for Italy.
Cy Twombly
#41. I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!
Cy Coleman
#42. To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
Cy Coleman
#43. I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.
Cy Coleman
#44. Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol.
Cy Wyss
#45. Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
Cy Coleman
#46. I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something.
Cy Twombly
#47. I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.
Cy Coleman
#48. I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.
Cy Twombly
#49. My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'
Cy Twombly
#50. I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.
Cy Twombly
#51. Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing ... pencil is more my medium than wet paint.
Cy Twombly
#52. Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
Cy Coleman
#53. I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.
Cy Young
#54. Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.
Cy Twombly
#55. So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.
Cy Coleman
#56. I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around.
Cy Twombly
#57. I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
Cy Twombly
#58. I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.
Cy Twombly
#59. Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.
Cy Young
#60. Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.
Cy Twombly
#61. My background was in performing originally.
Cy Coleman
#62. I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.
Cy Twombly
#63. When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
Cy Twombly
#64. And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
Cy Twombly
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