Top 100 What You Got Quotes
#1. People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
Patti Smith
#2. It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.
Ice Cube
#3. It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi
#4. He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'
'What you got on it?' the girl said.
'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'
'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.
Flannery O'Connor
#5. Happiness is being contented with what you got-- so get enough.
Dik Browne
#6. It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there's gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not.
Mildred D. Taylor
#7. Use a flamethrower to shed a little light on what you got in the ammo store, why dontcha?
Mark Henwick
#8. That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.
Emma Donoghue
#9. So what you got is a woman who knows about your issues. This means you don't have to do shit, Garrett, except count your lucky stars you're able to hold tight to your woman so you can weather ... the goddamned ... storm.
Kristen Ashley
#10. You got your own style, now let it come through. And remember no matter what, you got to be you.
SebastiAn
#11. If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.
Marian Diamond
#12. Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.
Nick Vujicic
#13. Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.
Werner Erhard
#14. Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone
Immortal Technique
#15. Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
Jodi Picoult
#16. The beginnings are gone, Laurel. But we can start with today and what you got around you.
Gloria Naylor
#17. My definition of sexy is not just using what you got from God, but also that you represent what you believe in. I don't want people to think I'm sexy for what I look like, I want them to find me sexy for who I am and what I do.
Jessica Biel
#19. You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
James Brown
#21. What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.
Michael Josephson
#22. When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.
William P. Smith
#23. Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what's there, not what you got told was there.
William Least Heat-Moon
#24. Writing does for me what you got in that glass does for you. If I can write about it, I can understand it. And I can put it in the ground. That's all I want to do.
Michael Connelly
#25. Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.
Anonymous
#26. I bought it in a shop," said Twoflower defensively. "I said I wanted a traveling trunk." "That's what you got, all right," said Rincewind. "It's very loyal," said Twoflower. "Oh yes," agreed Rincewind. "If loyalty is what you look for in a suitcase.
Terry Pratchett
#27. The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
Joe Armstrong
#28. My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.
Gwen Cooper
#29. It'd be good to see you happy. It'd be good to see you give what you got to give to a woman who deserves to get it.
Kristen Ashley
#30. Do what you got to do when you got to do it.
Dutch Jones
#31. She was faintly terrifying. She wanted it all. She wanted them all. She wanted experiences. In Tin's already jaded view, experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted, but Jorrie had always been more optimistic than him.
Margaret Atwood
#32. This is what you got when you let people in. They started to think they knew you when they didn't know shit.
Samantha Young
#33. I like to learn things slow I like learning alot I like to get it all again and in the end You know you get what you got
Zooey Deschanel
#34. Shit for brains," Leo's father said. "That's what you got ... shit for brains.
Janet Evanovich
#35. First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.
Ani DiFranco
#36. If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it!
Trooper
#37. So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.
Jonathan Franzen
#38. Anyone look back at their high school career and just shudder at what you got away with and didn't die?
Christopher Titus
#39. When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.
Laini Taylor
#40. Stop begging God to increase your territory when you can't even maintain the territory you already have. Work with what you got first.
Nakia R. Laushaul
#41. I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.
John Lee Hooker
#42. You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?
Frank Zappa
#43. I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.
Gerry Adams
#44. Take what you got and fly with it.
Jim Henson
#45. If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today
Benjamin Franklin
#46. We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.
Sinbad
#47. There are not many things you can do to make the car go faster at some racetracks. What you got from the shop is just how you're going to race. It's really about strategy.
Darrell Wallace Jr.
#48. Do what you got to do now, so you can do what you want to do later
Denzel Washington
#49. I'm not interested in saying what people should and shouldn't do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally if you do anything out of fear or to mask who you are, then that's a bit scary. You've got to work with what you got ...
Cate Blanchett
#50. So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.
Sarah Stillman
#51. Be happy 'cause happy ain't about what you got, it's about what you do with what you got.
Casey Robbins
#52. It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
Jack Kerouac
#53. A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.
Jesse Jackson
#54. If you know what you got and like it, be reluctant to leave it.
Johnny Hunt
#55. At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.
Ferdie Pacheco
#56. I like to say, "Experience is what you got when you didn't get what you wanted.
Howard Marks
#57. The best thing is to realize that you are who you are and you gotta work with what you got.
Zendaya
#58. I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.
Charley Pride
#59. I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
Bob Seger
#60. You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got.
Wally Lamb
#61. Lifes like a game of cards, sometimes you get delt a shit hand, Work with what you got, and never show your weaknesses. Keep a poker face no matter what.
Logan Zane Hessefort
#62. There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.
Shaquille O'Neal
#64. I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.
Andy Rooney
#65. I enjoy getting to be arty and quirky and weird and all the things that I don't have that much choice with. You just sort of use what you got.
Paul Reubens
#66. But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things and what you got at the end was hard work and self-denial?
Terry Pratchett
#67. It's what you do with what you got.
Jim Korkis
#68. Experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted.
Margaret Atwood
#69. How rough can you take it, Lourdes?' he asked, bringing his mouth very close to mine.
I was trying nor to pant. 'I don't know,' I replied honestly. 'Why don't you show me what you got?'
He smiled, and this time, it very nearly reached his eyes. 'You asked for it.
R.K. Lilley
#70. I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
Karyn Parsons
#71. Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it.
Meghan Trainor
#72. It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.
Joe Abercrombie
#73. What you got, son, I call it shinin on, the Bible calls it having visions, and there's scientists that call it precognition. I've read up on it, son. I've studied on it. They all mean seeing the future.
Stephen King
#74. True love is a preview of heaven, and you do what you got to, to get it.
Alice Randall
#75. When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want.
John Mayer
#76. The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.
Lee Child
#77. Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...
Jack Kerouac
#78. Triangle theory, I just founded it before "I" theory. That all letters are build with triangle, make few crosses and what you got, will be a perfect triangle, diffirent varienties.
Deyth Banger
#79. How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.
Curtis Mayfield
#80. In fact, I can't think of much I'd like better than for him to step into the room right now, glasses fogged and smelling of damp wool, shaking the rain from his hair like an old dog and saying: 'Dickie, my boy, what you got for a thirsty old man to drink tonight?
Donna Tartt
#81. Beautiful, that's what you got to do with that hurtin', you got to turn it beautiful.
A.S. Peterson
#83. There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
Kate DiCamillo
#85. Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.
Bruce Springsteen
#86. The preacher rose high on his elbow. "Law changes," he said, "but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.
John Steinbeck
#87. Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks
#88. I'm not going to pay this bill. I don't owe you any money. You do what you got to do!
Jon Jones
#89. As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.
Dennis Quaid
#90. Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got.
Joe Abercrombie
#91. As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better.
Don Ward
#92. I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.
Bill Goldberg
#93. Hey, disease boy!" Norton shouted. "We know what you got. It's called
Kate DiCamillo
#94. What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
Jodi Picoult
#95. I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
Ornette Coleman
#96. What do you have in this car?" he asked.
"What do you mean, like weapons?"
"That would be a good start."
"Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain."
"A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now ...
Richard Castle
#97. I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.
Leo Kottke
#98. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.
Harper Lee
#99. We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night ...
Andrea Gibson
#100. I have no heart?
Perhaps I have not;
But then you're mad to take offence
That I don't give you what I have not got:
Use your own common sense.
Christina Rossetti
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