Yes Quotes

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Honestly, I've been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

When you do say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.