Top 100 Yo Quotes
#1. Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?
Franklyn Ajaye
#2. Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker!
Mark Leyner
#3. I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo!
Terry Pratchett
#4. Where did they go?" asked Coco. "Here? Did Coconut bring Fro-Yo back here?"
"No," I said. "They walked into that sunset, because it was something no one had ever done or heard about, or seen at all anywhere ever. And they lived drippily ever after. The end.
David Arnold
#5. Yo momma so poor her face is on the front of a food stamp.
Various
#6. Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting.
In opening unprotected to the experience
that is enslaving you with its torment,
there is the willingness to be free.
Are you willing? Or do yo just want to
wait until the world finally gets it and does it your way?
Gangaji
#7. You keep running and whatever you're running from is just going to keep running right after you. Only way yo stop it is to turn around and cut it off head on." ~ Lyrik
A.L. Jackson
#9. Ayo for yayo
Walk around with yayo, all in my nasal
I must have been craze yo
Andre Nickatina
#10. I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.
Tiesto
#12. I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost about 100 pounds and within a year gained it all back.
Al Roker
#13. I am hyper vigilant and would be dangerous if threatened ... If someone broke into my house or attacked me in the street, it's THEM I would fear for ... But as Yo La Tengo recently put it so succinctly: I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass.
Haven Kimmel
#14. You want appreciation. Even though you like what's happening now doesn't mean that yo still don't want appreciation or greater stimulation. It just means you're been wanting. The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am and eagerness for more.
Abraham Hicks
#15. I drop styles on ears ... the public bite 'em.
Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.
Kool Keith
#16. [I] get [yo]ur point about how people can[']t save each other for real.
[B]ut I still think we need stories that tell us we can.
[J]ust so we won[']t stop trying.
Tanya Egan Gibson
#17. Yo momma so ugly she makes onions cry.
Various
#18. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.
Eminem
#19. Yo momma so poor that when I visited her house and tore down the cob webs, she screamed "Who's tearing down the drapes?
Various
#20. Causality was no longer the hidden demiurge that ruled the universe: down was up, the last was the first, the end was the beginning. Heraclitus had been resurrected from his dung heap, and what he had to show us was the simplest of truths: reality was a yo-yo, change was the only constant.
Paul Auster
#21. I just want to sound different than everyone else. I don't care if it sounds bad. I just want people to be like, 'Yo, that dude Benny was different.' Even if it sounds awful, at least they can't say, 'Oh well, I've heard that before.'
Benny Blanco
#22. You rely too much on yo rules, Hannah. You use them as a kind of crutch to hold yourself back from new experiences. You've let these rules control everything you do in your life.
Shana Norris
#23. Don't fall into the trap of letting others do everything for you. It's noble to accept help when you need it, lazy to accept it when yo don't.
Fiona Paul
#24. I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.
Michael Che
#25. Yo. Salt-and-Pepper. The name is Go-Go or Mr Go-Go, okay?
Matthew Reilly
#26. If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo. The point furthest from the sun is called aphelion. The point furthest from the yo-yo hand is called, by analogy, apocheir.
Thomas Pynchon
#27. You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?
Cassandra Clare
#28. The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight ...
Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!
Ludacris
#29. Eve: "Yo! Mocha!"
Oliver: "Yo. I am not your waitress.
Rachel Caine
#30. I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.
Rodney Dangerfield
#31. I'd sit the younger version of myself down and ask,'Yo, girl, what's the deal? Why so happy? Why must everything end so poetically?
Hannah Brencher
#32. I hung my head. Ranger was next on the list. "Yo," Ranger said when he answered. "Small problem." "No kidding. Your car just went off the screen." "It sort of burned up." Silence. "And you know that keypad you gave me? It was in the car." "Babe.
Janet Evanovich
#33. You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
Terry Pratchett
#34. I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue
Big Noyd
#35. Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato
The Notorious B.I.G.
#36. Just g'wan back home and set down on yo' royal diasticutis and say nothin'.
Zora Neale Hurston
#37. How did yo do that?"
Ahmose titled his head. "Im am a pathfinder," he said simply.
"But that's not a path. It's a door."
"Yes. I found the path of weakness in the door.
Colleen Houck
#38. Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
Andy Stanley
#39. But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?
Daniel Handler
#40. Those who love you the most, let yo bend your notes
Paresh Shah
#41. Shane groaned. Yo, Drama Princess, want to tone it down a little? Somewhere, Sandra Bernhardt wants her tantrum back.
Rachel Caine
#42. You know that bit in the Bible when they're all like, 'Yo Peter, do you know this Jesus bloke?' and he's like, 'Hell, no.' It was like that, but even worse." "My word.
Alexis Hall
#43. I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
Ice-T
#44. I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make you slap yo' Aint Emma" was apt in her case.
Mars Hill
#45. During the writers' strike in 2007, we put on our own SNL episode there with old sketches. Michael Cera hosted, our musical guest was Yo La Tengo, and we gave Lorne a birthday cake as he sat in the audience.
Amy Poehler
#46. You'll live forever, and being remembered by you is the only immortality I'll ever need. If I only live on as a part of yo- Bianca, that's my idea of heaven
Claudia Gray
#47. Yo, bredren, we be the illest,' went my proclamation. 'We be the dopest,' Anand would follow. 'Our tunes are going to be good,' Nishant would finish with.
Nikesh Shukla
#48. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.
Cassandra Clare
#49. He ain't kissin' yo' mouf when he carry on over yuh lak dat. He's kissin' yo' foot and 'tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.
Zora Neale Hurston
#50. Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em.
Harper Lee
#51. Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life
Kanye West
#52. I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
Raekwon
#53. And again it's no fair play to t' French. Four o' them is rightly matched wi' one o' us; and if we go an' fight 'em four to four it's like as if yo' fell to beatin' Sylvie there, or little Billy Croxton, as isn't breeched. And that's my mind.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#54. Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.
Stella Young
#55. I'm like this yo-yo with a three-thousand-mile string." - Tai
Jennifer Baker
#56. I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music ... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'
Jenny Lewis
#57. I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'
Drake
#58. Yo QT. r u there? I dart Kika a glance. "What does that mean? He called me a Q-tip?" Kika laughs and sits next to me. "Read it out loud. It will make more sense." "Yo-Q-T ru there. Q ... T ... ?" "Q
Anne Eliot
#59. Yo, thats illogical I cant have it!
Nick Jonas
#60. Joke:
What did the seahorse say when the sand dollar landed on his back in the rip current?
"Hi-yo Silver! Swim-away!"
Heather Wolf
#61. I pick up the phone and press the few buttons until I can hear my heavy, creeper breathing over the PA system. I start beat boxing into the phone, making sure I spit more than necessary. Yo, Marky Mark. Please come to your office immediately, there's a funky bunch of manly stud waiting for you.
Jay McLean
#62. Don't say you'se ole. You'se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo' ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo' young girl days to spend wid me.
Zora Neale Hurston
#63. Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'
Kanye West
#64. Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.
Danielle Steel
#65. I called every day to see how she was doin,
Every time that I called her, it seemed somethin was brewin.
I called her on my dime, picked up, and then I called again,
I said, 'Yo, who was that?'
'Oh, he's just a friend.'
Biz Markie
#66. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest - Yo ho ho and a packet of crisps." "Any
Terry Pratchett
#67. That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."
Ace Hood
#68. I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.
Robert Englund
#69. Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'!
T.F. Hodge
#70. Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.
Ellen Kushner
#71. I'm not a trained chef. I'm a self-taught cook, and I want people to be like, 'Yo, I could do that! Maybe I didn't think to or maybe it seemed harder than it really is.'
Haylie Duff
#72. And that vest won't help, cuz I'm aimin' at yo scalp
Lil' Wayne
#73. The kind of woman who would breeze into the bathroom while I was shaving and say, Yo, shithead - you going to fix that shelf like you said, or do I have to take you back to Husbands-R-Us?
Michael Marshall Smith
#74. A toilet flushes, and everyone turns to see Jax emerge from the downstairs bathroom holding a Victoria's Secret catalogue and chewing on a Red Vine. "Yo, what up," he says, oblivious. As he looks from one face to the next he stops chewing. He swallows hard. "Everything okay?" "No," I say.
Rachel A. Marks
#75. Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!
Ghostface Killah
#76. The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo ...
Mencheres to Cat
Jeaniene Frost
#77. You belong to me now, and I'll be back to get yo after your twenty-first birthday, when the time is right. No one else can touch you until then and I'll always be around to make sure.
Michelle A. Valentine
#78. Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
Zora Neale Hurston
#79. I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.
Maggie Stiefvater
#81. My homies hold me down, really. I talk to Baby, Jeezy, Rozay, Nicki, everybody, from jail. Just call once in a while and holla at people like, 'Yo what's up? What's life like out there?' for people to give me a report of what's going on.
Meek Mill
#82. You be wise to stop yo' negative ways, mister.
Jason Medina
#83. Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is ... By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life
reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.
Max DePree
#84. I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
Raekwon
#85. I love sleeping in my son's silly racecar bed. I love watching hours of 'Yo Gabba Gabba.' I love long playdates with his best friend Jack and traveling with Zev. Most of all I love coming home from work and seeing Zev run up to me saying, 'My mommy's home! My mommy's home!'
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#86. Yo, dude. That shit might be cool on Saved By The Bell but not in real life.
Jason Myers
#88. BAD THINGS HAPPEN THAT WE CAN'T CHANGE BUT THAT IS NO REASON YO SHUT OUT THE ONES WE LOVE
Anonymous
#89. BRUICHLADDICH 40 YO WHERE: ITC Gardenia, Bangalore PRICE: Rs 29,000 for a 60ml shot;
Anonymous
#90. Service to others is the rent yo pay for your room here on earth.
Ali Mohammad
#91. I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.
Josh McDermitt
#92. I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.
Alex Turner
#93. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat.
Zora Neale Hurston
#94. When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.
Aaron Paul
#95. I felt like a yo-yo, up one minute and then down the next. Bouncing between highs and lows so fast I couldn't see straight.
Jamie Canosa
#96. I am I, I am he. We are, but I am I, first I am I, I will defend being I until I am unable to fight any longer. I am I, Atalia. Ego. Yo. A professional degree, an Argentine, a scarlet fingernail, pretty sometimes, big dark eyes, I. Atalia Donosi, I. Yo. Yo-yo, windlass and hawser. Funny.
Julio Cortazar
#98. Yo, I'm god incarnate. From the grimiest back blocks. Pazienza lyrical equivalent of Sasquatch
Vinnie Paz
#99. There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tango has invited me to play with them.
Fred Armisen
#100. Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.
Big Daddy Kane
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