Cy Quotes & Sayings

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since. — Cy Young

I had my freedom and that was nice — Cy Twombly

There were times when initial introductions were so vested with something other as to confuse and distract and entrance both parties, Cy would realize later. And only further into their relationships when you knew the person better, and their place in your life became clear, if there was love, if there was hate, if there was deepness of any kind, only then did you understand that the embers of meaning have been present all along and glowing since that first moment you laid eyes on them. As if you already knew them before you came to know them. As if some rift had bent time. — Sarah Hall

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story. — Cy Twombly

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good. — Cy Coleman

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. — Cy Twombly

It's Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It's Derek Lowe taking the mound the very next night to complete the most improbable comeback in baseball history - and then seven days later clinching the World Series. It's Pedro Martinez and his six hitless innings of postseason relief against the Indians. Yes, it is also Cy Young and Roger Clemens, and the 192 wins in a Red Sox uniform that they share - the perfect game for Young, the 20 strikeout games for Clemens - but it is also Bill Dinneen clinching the 1903 World Series with a busted, bloody hand, and Jose Santiago shutting down Minnesota with two games left in the season to keep the 1967 Impossible Dream alive, and Jim Lonborg clinching the Impossible Dream the very next day, and Jim Lonborg again, tossing a one-hitter and a three-hitter in the 1967 World Series, and Luis Tiant in the 1975 postseason, shutting out Oakland and Cincinnati in back-to-back starts. They are all winners. — Tucker Elliot

Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. — Morgan Philpot

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country. — Cy Coleman

When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball. — Tris Speaker

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls. — Cy Twombly

Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara. — Graig Nettles

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. — Cy Twombly

I don't work 9 to 5. — Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished. — Cy Twombly

When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money. — Cy Thao

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island. — Sarah Hall

I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich. — John Waters

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time. — Cy Coleman

AS THE DARKNESS grew, and with Samuel gone, Annie thought she'd join her children upstairs, but she stopped outside the door when she heard Birdie mention Cy's name. Since he'd left, Birdie spoke to her in short angry sentences, as if Cy's leaving were Annie's fault. She wished she could hold her and say she understood. She had more in common with Birdie than she could admit. But she knew how trying to talk to her would go. They were each spinning in the dark, like flies in a glass of water, flapping around for something to latch onto. Something — Rae Meadows

I'm trying to get hold of them ... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters. — Cy Coleman

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time. — Cy Twombly

White paint is my marble. — Cy Twombly

If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed. — Justin Verlander

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before. — Cy Twombly

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock. — Cy Young

I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game. — R.A. Dickey

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others. — Edmund White

Whether you believe something possible or impossible -- either way, you will be right. — Cy Wakeman

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.' — Cy Twombly

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive. — Cy Twombly

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. — Cy Young

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already. — Cy Coleman

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art. — Cy Twombly

I work in an impatient way. — Cy Twombly

Virginia is a good start for Italy. — Cy Twombly

I never really separated painting and literature. — Cy Twombly

Who doesn't want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn't grow up wanting to be the best? I'm no different. I want to be the best. I've always wanted to be the best. — R.A. Dickey

Flash grenades - a weapon used in China. Ingrid shivered as Cy's comments suddenly made sense. Chinatown was so close. She was so close to the Chinese, to Lee and Jiao. So close, and so oblivious. Despite — Beth Cato

I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player. — Pete Rose

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it. — Cy Twombly

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me! — Cy Coleman

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?' — Cy Twombly

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. — Cy Coleman

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing. — Cy Coleman

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball. — Cy Young

She felt like the crushed petals of a violet, dark and limp. No, no, no. She bit her knuckle until she tasted blood. Cy was gone. — Rae Meadows

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit. — Hamilton Jordan

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around. — Cy Twombly

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. — Cy Twombly

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick. — Cy Twombly

My background was in performing originally. — Cy Coleman

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know? — Cy Twombly

I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself. — Cy Twombly

I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something. — Cy Twombly

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better. — Cy Coleman

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign. — Cy Young

All the computers in the world are on a network. They're linked by our cuffs. But I'm a computer. Jack's a computer - Akilah - PA Young - all the cy-clones. We're all computers.
You know the great thing about computers?
They can be hacked. — Beth Revis

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste." — Cy Twombly

The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white. — Cy Twombly

Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol. — Cy Wyss

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released. — Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it. — Cy Coleman

A salesman is an it that stinks to please
but whether to please itself or someone else
makes no more difference than if it sells
hate condoms education snakeoil vac
uumcleaners terror strawberries democ
ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair — E. E. Cummings

Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms. — Cy Young

It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting ... It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning. — Cy Twombly

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link. — Cy Twombly

I'm not an abstractionist completely. — Cy Twombly

Red, brown, yellow, green, black. Five colours to say everything that could be said. And what Cy suddenly wanted, more than anything in the world just then, what he wanted was that missing blue, primary and resistant to the trade. Blue that was unstable and misbehaved when left in skin. Blue like the sea that had taken his father. Blue, for his mother's sake, and for the true colour of every bereaved and bloodless heart when it is collapsing. — Sarah Hall

Elliot Rawley was a drinker, Cy's mother had been right. And he was a poor drinker. One that let the demons of the bottle into his head when he tipped it back, demons that went about unloosing all the trouble they could find stashed in the catacombs of his mind. Every tragic thing that had ever happened, every self-doubt, every delusion, freed itself from bondage and revisited him when he drank. — Sarah Hall

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do.


~Gem — Larissa Ione

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing ... pencil is more my medium than wet paint. — Cy Twombly

I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing
even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficien cy and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future
because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And America must be that nation. — Barack Obama