Top 100 Y Quotes
#1. I usually bring along a bottle of kombucha, thinking, 'This will be really good for me.' But I never actually drink it. The fermented mushroom-y flavor is too intense for me.
Lena Headey
#2. When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.
Jessica Hart
#3. Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.
Stephen Root
#4. When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
Tavis Smiley
#5. Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
Rachel Bloom
#6. Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa
Dan Buettner
#7. I kind of love Colin Farrell again. I think it started with In Bruges. No, I'm lying. It started when I saw a clip of his sex tape where he's manning the camera and instead of getting all Sex Tape-y, he goes, quite genuinely, "GOD, I'm a TERRIBLE cinematographer.
Jessica Morgan
#8. Y'all probably watched a lot of television."
"We didn't have TV."
"Nintendo, then?"
He shook his head.
"Fantasy football? Xbox?" I frowned. "Please tell me you had Angry Birds."
"We had a library," he said, "and a few educational magazines."
"Huh. Well, that's just tragic.
Cecily White
#9. PSALM 121 I v lift up my eyes to w the hills. From where does my help come? 2 x My help comes from the LORD, who y made heaven and earth.
Anonymous
#10. [...] That's Beethoven's fifth...
Da da da dum!
Heh heh. That's morse code, y'know.
Uh, morse code?
Hmm. It's morse code for the letter "v".
Alan Moore
#11. If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y
H.L. Mencken
#12. Nights're cold now. Nights g'cold, y'get sick. S'what happens.
Erin Hunter
#13. The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.
Jeff Dunham
#14. I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.
Richard P. Feynman
#15. Y'know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations, like sitting on frozen peas after a vasectomy
Josh Stern
#16. 31And y as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Anonymous
#17. It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.
Henry Bonilla
#18. [M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.
Charles Taylor
#19. something: scenario x is responded to by action y. Everyone learns it and then practices it until responses are almost instinctive. It's all part of the "train hard, fight easy" philosophy that's central to military life - though veterans of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan smile
Nick Pope
#20. Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
Taylor Hicks
#21. There was a sniffle from the crowd. At which point, Rhage's voice hissed, What. This is beautiful, 'kay? Fuck all y'all.
J.R. Ward
#22. I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, 'Here comes another Bon Iver album!' I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out.
Justin Vernon
#23. Even before phones and e-mail this county could spread a story faster than a hooker could spread K-Y Jelly," Tessa added with a perfectly straight face.
Linda McMaken
#24. I go to bed with horror on my wings. In my pillow is sad comforts. Like my mother says, 'On essaye a s'y prendre, pi sa travaille pas' (We try to manage, and it turns out shit).
Jack Kerouac
#25. We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.
Heather Blanton
#26. My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
Teddy Sears
#27. Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)
Steven Pinker
#28. I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.
Garth Ennis
#29. If y'all find a couple of my toes on ya plate, jess let me know, 'cause I'm missin' a few. I put my foot in this heah meal." ~Big Momma
Angela Duirden-Galbreth
#30. My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.
Soledad O'Brien
#31. Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.
Ron Luciano
#32. 6Blessed are those who hunger and x thirst y for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Anonymous
#33. My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
A. J. Jacobs
#34. I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.
Matt Nix
#35. I'll get you, you clique-y sons of bitches, I thought. You know what? I never did get them. I'm just realizing now. I should totally still get them.
Mindy Kaling
#36. Y'know,' he said, 'it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.
Terry Pratchett
#37. His life-experiences, and reflections upon them, led Y to believe that the most difficult challenge in life was how to be kind, yet strong. 'To be kind is not enough,' he would say. 'You have to be strong to give to others, and strong to withstand life's fluctuating fortunes.
Arnold Zable
#38. Y-you, Marley Layton, are my favouritist big brother called Marley. The best, my very bestest one." George points her finger up at me as she speaks.
"I'm your only big brother called Marley."
"This true, this is vrery, vrery true," she slurs.
Lesley Jones
#39. I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.
Mehcad Brooks
#40. Y'know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It's not as easy as it looks ... "
Josh Stern
#41. It's because I'm a 'Limited Edition'. Y'all should be grateful for even knowing me," Meryn huffed.
Alanea Alder
#42. So how was it? Did it hurt? Was he gentle? How many times did y'all do it?
Annie Brewer
#43. I Guess there is a Limited Gap in this Republic of Bananas due to the DeKay N Y is Le Vice such an alarming Exchange when you Express your Benetton? Ask Tommy, he'll figure!
Natasha Tsakos
#44. Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.
Massimo Vignelli
#45. I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
Oscar Levant
#46. But, y'know, today I got a lot of help myself. There're tons of things we can't do ourselves, right? And that's why we're helped out. If someone, or something, can lend you a helping hand, great, I say! After all, we're all in this together!
Sakura Tsukuba
#47. Daryl, de The Walking Dead, y Mike, de Breaking Bad
Rick Riordan
#48. How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.
Robyn Schneider
#49. Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.
Ketch Secor
#50. It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.
Kerry King
#51. I'm going to leave y'all with one thought. I'm a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.
Ben Crenshaw
#52. [Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious.
Jean Genet
#53. Hey, y'know what money can buy? A solid gold gun. That shoots diamond bullets.
I call it "The Compensator". Whatta ya think?
Daniel Way
#54. When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
Muhammad Ali
#55. I can't take it y'all
I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
Mos Def
#56. Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed.
George Carlin
#57. My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.
Judd Apatow
#58. [Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed.
Armineonila M.
#59. He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y
Cormac McCarthy
#60. Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom pg 269
Doug Dorst
#61. I applied to a few conservatories. I was sure that I wouldn't get in, and I didn't plan to go to N.Y. But then I got into Juilliard.
Susanna Phillips
#62. Any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their authority and impair the intellectual vigor of the young. ("Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?" [1954], Y 196)
S.T. Joshi
#63. [Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.
Steven L. Peck
#64. Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but ... ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.
Lisa Randall
#65. I don't care if you wear white to your coming-out party and pretend to be a virgin, but you're gay, Kit. G-A-Y. Gay! So gay, fairies everywhere will weep that your machismo avoided their gaydar for so long.
Tibby Armstrong
#66. Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said.
Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#67. ... [T]he letters of the alphabet (two Cs, a large D; the combination of Y, S, and L) belong on an ophthalmologist's chart. For the Parisienne, luxury should never be spelled out.
Anne Berest
#68. I hope y'all haven't punk'd me or anything and you're actually calling me a wuss.
Heather Rainier
#69. PSALM 35 Contend, O LORD, with those who y contend with me; z fight against those who fight against me!
Anonymous
#70. The devil is about to throw some of you into prison, w that you may be tested, and for x ten days y you will have tribulation.
Anonymous
#71. I wanna get a piece of bread and draw a smiley face on it with condiments then take pictures just because I'm young and I can - y o l o
Myself
#72. In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
David Sax
#73. All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
James Agate
#74. I'm so pumped about joining 'Y&R' - I watch it all the time and can't wait to get in there and get my hands dirty!
Justin Hartley
#75. Y'all act like I brought the ladies to the party, but they come on they own, cuz. A door open up out the Underworld, there they is. It's y'all's fault they here. All y'all let shit get so fucked up here they was drawn here like hoes to coke.
Christopher Moore
#76. Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.
Carmelo Anthony
#77. Whether or not it has fully dawned on society, the reality is that Gen Y will soon have to assume the responsibility for a world crafted by previous generations.
Charlie Caruso
#78. There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.
Allen Ginsberg
#80. La vida es un libro en blanco y negro y nosotros salimos a llenar unas hojas"
Life is a book in white and black and we have to go out and to fill the pages
Herman Zapp
#81. Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
Paul Twitchell
#82. My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
Nancy Reagan
#83. Soon, we are as naked as the day we were born. Except, y'know, were not covered in blood and attached to our mothers by umbilical cords.
Fanny Merkin
#84. Wow. Y'all really outdid yourselves. Looks like an elf threw up in here.
Angela McPherson
#85. I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.
Marnie Stern
#86. Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
John Green
#87. My own style depends on my location. Hippie-chic in Costa Rica, tailored and clean in N.Y.C., and great jeans and comfy tops with fun sneakers in L.A.
Perrey Reeves
#88. I love N.Y.C.! I can't think of any individual that hates New York.
Theophilus London
#89. I certainly enjoy doing pantomime-y things, but I didn't have any specific training in it.
Rob McClure
#90. I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
Colin Angle
#91. I'd like for y'all to meet the love of my life, her name's the game.
Drake
#92. It would be fun to be a redhead ... you can get away with being, like, really volatile and fire-y because you're like, 'I'm just a redhead; what can I say?'
Anna Kendrick
#93. I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
Paloma Faith
#94. In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes.
Cassandra Clare
#95. I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.
Nicole Ari Parker
#96. She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood interventions, and she will gush about obscure details of a home visitation experiment in Elmira, N.Y., that dramatically improved child outcomes.
Nicholas Kristof
#97. Writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never really done them. It screams out at you. That's something where I believe you have to have been there to really get it, y'know?
Irvine Welsh
#98. Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them
especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business..
Paul Zane Pilzer
#99. I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.
Ana Ortiz
#100. Well, I must have gotten pretty lucky to have all three of y'all in a room and not remember what happened," he said, his honey-colored eyes twinkling with glee
Raven Hudgins
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