Top 100 Ya Quotes
#1. I tell ya, I was an ugly kid. I was so ugly that my dad kept the kid's picture that came with the wallet he bought.
Rodney Dangerfield
#2. It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love.
Michael Franti
#3. Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
Tommy Chong
#4. You hit me again," I said, growing oddly annoyed.
"Ya think?" Evil Riggs said. Smart-ass.
"Part of my brain hurts. I demand to know what that part of my brain is called and what its job is.
Darynda Jones
#5. Ya back home they call me the tie-dye shirt kid, well that and fagot.
Bo Burnham
#6. When you say gorgeous," Jen started, "are we talking Brad Pitt boyish good looks, or Johnny Depp make ya want to slap somebody?" "No, we're talking Brad and Johnny need to bow down and recognize" Jacque answered.
Quinn Loftis
#7. Goin' to the altar. I mean, do ya feel different, or anything?" "Well, it ain't the goin' to the altar," said Willie. I had the feelin' that he was repeatin' what the preacher had said. "It's the prayin' thet makes the difference,
Janette Oke
#8. Little kid comes in late ta school. Teacher says, "Why ya late?" Kid says, "Had a take a heifer down - get 'er bred." Teacher says, "Couldn't your ol' man do it?" Kid says, "Sure he could, but not as good as the bull.
John Steinbeck
#9. I got these haters like, When he gon' stop?
Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.
Lil' Wayne
#10. escape. Please hold my hand. My gret grandma seys that if you die holding the hand of the one ya love, you'll
Rowan Wisce
#11. Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels.
But.
Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood.
It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.
Jodi Picoult
#12. Natalie, who was the author of a series of wildly successful Hunger Games meets Gossip Girl YA books about a clique of girls at a postapocalyptic prep school who have to simultaneously fight for popularity and for the survival of the planet - hadn
Doree Shafrir
#13. Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen
right?
Jack LaLanne
#14. I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over!
Rodney Dangerfield
#15. I tell ya I got a stupid son. That's one load that shoulda been shot on the wall.
Rodney Dangerfield
#16. I ope ya don't mind, Charlie, but I borrowed one a ya effs.'
'Ya did?'
'Yeah.' he smiled. 'I told 'im to start finkin' smart.
Robert Newton
#17. I'm touring and I'm bored and it's an off day or I'm travelling and boom, there ya go, it's fun again cause I'm drunk.
Kirk Windstein
#18. Sometimes evil wins, nah, child. But it's always fleeting. Just a temporary ripple in a sea of goodness, brought on by the carnal nature of greed 'n corruption. Sacrifice washes that ripple out in waves of love 'n light, and peace is found when justice is served, even for those who lose, ya hear?
Rachael Wade
#19. I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.
Muhammad Ali
#20. I ain't mad ma, see you on ya bummy swag I'm in that money green Jag, lot of money bags
Nicki Minaj
#21. If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.
Ron White
#22. I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis
#23. Nineteen is the age where you say Look out, world, I'm smokin' TNT and I'm drinkin' dynamite, so if you know what's good for ya, get out of my way -
Stephen King
#24. It's my fucking life and you know what, nobody invited you ... so there's the door ... see ya!
Green Day
#25. Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.
Ghostface Killah
#26. It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know?
Gerard Way
#27. Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.
Kid Rock
#28. One who will offer you his coat when you're cold or cut you a bloom from his favorite rosebush just because he was thinkin' about ya while he worked. One who'll take your sass in good humor and sass you back when ya need it.
Karen Witemeyer
#29. I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?
Constance Marie
#30. These bad boys're what we call Runnie-undies. Keep you, um, nice and comfy."
"Nice and comfy?"
"Yeah, ya know. Your-"
"Yeah, got it." Thomas took the underwear and other stuff.
James Dashner
#31. Tristan held his hand out toward Sam with his beautiful smile. "Nice to meet ya, Sam." "You too, Tristan," Sam said warily. Tristan patted him on the back, his wolfish grin in full force. "Oh, no need to be so formal with my name. By all means, call me asshole.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#32. Oh - once in your life you find someone
Who will turn your world around
Bring you up when you're feelin' down
Ya - nothin' could change what you mean to me
Oh there's lots that I could say
But just hold me now
Cause our love will light the way
Bryan Adams
#33. The future's comin' at ya' like a freight train.
Lila McCann
#34. Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.
Laura Moncur
#35. I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.
Lee Hazlewood
#36. I can't totally talk about why we divide, but ... it's interesting because we're doing this scene today that's sort of the pinnacle of that. Two gangs fighting against each other, ultimately knowing that ... ya know, it's like friends fighting friends. To me it's fun, personally.
Jeremy Renner
#37. Mace let out an exasperated sigh. "It's bad enough we have the baby. Which I was accepting of because he's mine."
"That's real big of ya, hoss.
Shelly Laurenston
#38. Write like you got Chuck Norris after ya'!
Ren Garcia
#39. I'de luv to kiss ya but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis
#41. My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and
of course
heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.
Nova Ren Suma
#42. My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'
Warren Hutcherson
#43. If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
Jerry Garcia
#44. Did he open the wrong... "Probably shouldna opened all those drawers," Blake carries on, rubbing his chin. "Ya can't unsee some of those toys. But everybody has to have his own kinda fun.
Sarina Bowen
#45. dance show. What'ya reckon, Dad?' The dance show that she may not have
Amanda Egan
#46. It's one fucking illusion in this fucking delusion... you don't want to be in my dream, do ya?
Deyth Banger
#47. I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?
Debi Mazar
#48. I would just spit, burp, and call good riddance! Who needs ya? Who cares?
Jerry Spinelli
#49. I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.
Sarah Mlynowski
#50. I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
Jenny McCarthy
#51. Time is like a river," Coydog had told the boy. "It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin'. You couldn't stop it no more than you could fly away.
Walter Mosley
#52. God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I'm going to get persecuted, ya know?
Heidi Montag
#53. The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
Russell Smith
#54. Alighted near Hazel and Fiver. "How's Holly?" asked Hazel. "'E sad," said Kehaar. "'E say you no come back." Then he added, "Mees Clover, she ready for mudder." "That's good," said Hazel. "Is anyone doing anything about it?" "Ya, ya, ees all to fight." "Oh, well, I suppose it'll sort itself out.
Richard Adams
#56. Ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart ...
Dave Matthes
#57. It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.
Emma McLaughlin
#58. And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.
Lawrence Taylor
#60. Sugar, that's what they always say. Ya know, everybody wantz to tell stories but they just end up makin' their own story with me to tell to someone else. I haven't heard any stories but I bet I'm in a lot. You don't know it now, but it costs money for my stories.
Chad Faries
#61. As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.
John Allison
#62. I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#63. I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.
Robin McKinley
#64. There is no problem. And I'd like to keep it that way."
"Fine, ya big pussy."
"You have to know that's not an insult to me, right?
Shelly Laurenston
#65. 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
#66. Love is evil spell it backwards I'll show ya.
Eminem
#67. You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!
Adam Baldwin
#68. You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me
Tupac Shakur
#70. You know what they say about curiosity and cats. May not kill ya, but it'll get ya inta a heap a trouble around here, too. Though trouble seems ta find you even when you ain't lookin' for it.
Kami Garcia
#71. But dogs are going to be dogs, ya know? You can't get mad at them for being dogs. I
J.R. Rain
#72. If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
Jack Falahee
#73. Pop that, pop that, jiggle that fat
Don't stop, get it till ya clothes get wet
Missy Elliott
#74. I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.
Christofer Drew
#76. When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
Rachael Ray
#77. High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know ...
David Cross
#78. It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.
Stephen King
#79. I love you."
"What?"
"I love you and I don't know why you don't love me back."
"Is that what you think? Then ya know what?
You're stupider than I am.
Carian Cole
#80. I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#81. 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
#82. ... To save your life... you should be my biatch... you like this... don't ya???... off.... you make.... me sick!
Deyth Banger
#83. My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.
Joel Madden
#84. Wow I can't belive I won,
This is awesome,
Don't trip and fall,
I'm gonna get to thank the fans,
This is so cool,
Oh kany'e west is here,
Cool haircut,
What are ya doing there ...
Ouch ...
I guess I'm not gonna get to thank the fans
Taylor Swift
#85. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow. A beautiful word, when you really think about it.
Lauren Oliver
#86. When I met you last night baby
Before you opened up your gap
I had respect for ya lady
But now I take it all back
Nate Dogg
#87. Ya know, you're not supposed to fall in love with anyone when I'm not around to threaten them. - Jase
H.R. Willaston
#88. I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.
Rodney Dangerfield
#89. Tell ya this . . . your dad was smart enough to get your mum. And she didn't make it easy."
"Cadwaladr females never make it easy.
G.A. Aiken
#90. You not nothing til you got something, then everybody love ya. Pops told me that
Webbie
#91. In the wake of the current injustice we all need to remember to breathe, stay strong and know that God has a bigger plan. Through whatever Hold Ya Head.
Teedra Moses
#92. Get wreck in the kitchen like she on the Cooking Channel,
And then hide the heat in the car door ...
God damn, she's a mother-to-be, ya hope for twins,
Give me a whole tribe!
And be as sexy as Janet was on the cover of Vibe.
Sadat X
#93. A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR? ... WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!
Roald Dahl
#94. The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
Nate Powell
#95. Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
Laura Kreitzer
#96. ... a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle,
there just ain't no choice about it.
Yer either a Southerner or ya ain't.
Chad B. Hanson
#97. Read it, ya slack eared, short tusk mongrel." - Grormoth Wraithmane
D.W. Johnson
#98. In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there's not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).
John Scalzi
#99. Beck must have seen how frightened she was because his expression softened. He leaned close, and whispered, "Do ya trust me, Riley?"
Tears built in her eyes.
"Yes," she whispered, trembling in fear. Always.
"Then it'll be all right," he replied. Beck gently placed a kiss on her forehead.
Jana Oliver
#100. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.
Betsy Cornwell
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