Yay Quotes

• At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  People, Missing, Energy

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• Surround yourself with "yay-sayers" not "naysayers."

  Lynn Robinson

  Naysayers, Surround Yourself, Surround

  Lynn Robinson, John Willig (2009). “Listen: Trusting Your Inner Voice in Times of Crisis”, p.191, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I feel like a real cowboy! Yippi Ki Yay!

  Kurt Angle

  Real, Cowboy, Wwe

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• When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.

  Nicki Minaj

  Determination, Yankees, Yankee Stadium

  Song: Fly I Believe I Can Fly, Album: Pink Friday

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• No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.

  Ian Bogost

  Wake Up, Lawns, Find Me

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Just because people are calling you skinny doesn't mean I'm like, 'Yay!' No! You're telling me I don't look right. This is me, this is my body - I have accepted it.

  Shenae Grimes

  Mean, People, Looks

  "'90210' star defends her slender frame". People magazine interview, www.today.com. November 27, 2008.

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• When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

  Emmy Rossum

  Cute, Dog, Puppy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My brother broke into a toothy grin. "Yay! Your brain works!

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Brain, Broke

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• No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cowboy, Mind, Canada

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.

  J.R. Ward

  Cheer, Team, Guy

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

  Don King

  Business, Agreement, Deserve You

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• "You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Fun, Mean

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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• ...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.

  Barry Lyga

  Hands, Knives, Long

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• I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you.

  Raven-Symone

  Government, Proud, Married

  Raven-Symonè @ravensymone, twitter.com. August 2, 2013.

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• I've never been to a prom or a dance; so it's funny, because we have dances on the show, and I'll be like, 'Oh yay! It's my school dance!'

  Ashley Benson

  School, Prom, Shows

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• Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

  David Mitchell

  Smart, Heart, Miracle

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.276, Random House Group

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• In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.

  Emo Philips

  College, Play, Black

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

  James Lileks

  Arabia, Want, Firsts

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• I like hip-hop, I like yay music.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. That's why liberals promote policies to break up families. Every social malady is a victory for the left. A couple gets divorced and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A child is born out of wedlock and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A person gets addicted to drugs and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!"

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Couple, Drug

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, m.thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Kids, Home

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it.

  Rick Riordan

  Hug, Looks, Athena

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• Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!

  Martha Plimpton

  Dog, Morning, Voters

  "Emmy Reactions: What the Nominated Stars and Execs Say". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Sky, Clouds, Soul

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

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• I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

  Marina Sirtis

  Girl, Sex, Brain

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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