Yvette Quotes & Sayings

I would put myself towards left of center. — Yvette Clarke

I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott is amazing! — Yvette Nicole Brown

This is going to sound slightly stalkerish, but I can't help but notice you've decapitated Jack Skellington and put him on your ears." "What can I say?" Yvette shrugs. "I like bones." "So do I, actually, because our skeletons support a massive interconnected muscular structure and without them we would be blobs of flesh. Also we wouldn't have middle fingers to flip people off with. Are you in Room 14B?" Yvette's eyes widen. "Yeah, so you're -" "MY ROOMMATE!" I screech. A passing guy winces and flips me off. I loudly inform him he has his skeleton to thank for that. — Sara Wolf

Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go. — Yvette Christianse

When we find out Who He (Jesus) is, then we find out who we are and it forever settles what we believe. — Yvette R. Dempster

My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me. — Yvette Clarke

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it ... and you hope for a better day for the next generation. — Yvette Nicole Brown

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values. — Yvette Clarke

Memories can kill, Yvette. The past can reach right up and grab you and drag you to a place you shouldn't be. Like a burning building. — Louise Penny

With performing live, you obviously don't get the luxury of another take, but for me, it is all the same. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

If you can't change it, make it work! — Yvette Wilson Bentley

I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

O lovely river of Yvette!
O darling river! like a bride,
Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette
Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide.
O lovely river Yvette!
O darling stream! on balanced wings
The wood-birds sang the chansonnette
That here a wandering poet sings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay? — Yvette Cooper

You are a particle in this great big universe that because of your divinity, are able to manifest greatness! You are so alive that what you think becomes reality, and what you create, well, it becomes your environment. — Yvette Lopez

I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here. — Yvette Nicole Brown

I think it's always important to put your own spin and bring your essence to whatever character you play. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like. — Yvette Nicole Brown

I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up! — Yvette Nicole Brown

I think I am most comfortable when I am on stage. I feel free, like I can be or do anything and it feels like home. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it. — Yvette Clarke

I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot. — Yvette Nicole Brown

Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, stopped [me] from standing. — Yvette Cooper

If Dom has taught me anything, it's that given the choice between a marriage of convenience and no marriage at all, I would choose the latter."
"But what you're really angling for is a marriage for love." When she cast him a sad smile, Edwin rolled his eyes. "You and Yvette are both cloyingly romantic."
"Which is probably why neither of us has managed to gain a husband. — Sabrina Jeffries

Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people. — Yvette Nicole Brown

Tell Daddy to turn off the broccoli! It's probably burned!" Casey shouts something back, maybe that the kitchen cabinets are on fire, but Yvette backs out onto the road and drives off. — Eva Pohler

You don't know anything,' she said. 'If you knew one thing about this life you would not think it was so funny.'
Yvette put her hands on her hips. She shook her head slowly. 'Darlin,' she said. 'Life did take its gift back from yu and me in de diffren order, dat's all. Truth to tell, funny is all me got lef wid. An yu, darlin, all yu got lef is paperwork. — Chris Cleave

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us. — Yvette Clarke

I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless. — Yvette Nicole Brown

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system. — Yvette Clarke

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. — Yvette Clarke

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved. — Yvette Nicole Brown

In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary. — Yvette Christianse

So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with X Factor judges. When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce. — Yvette Cooper

In softball ... , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season. — Yvette Girouard

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country. — Yvette Clarke

I realized that I could never really function fully on this earth until I understood this: Until you know WHOSE you are, you will never know WHO you are. — Yvette R. Dempster

Call me once you've taken care of that hard-on in your pants, so you'll last longer than ten seconds when we fuck. — Tina Folsom

vowed to herself that she wouldn't give him a son until after they were legally wed. — Danielle Yvette

That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door. — Yvette Christianse

Yvette is a woman who looks like a church bell. Her copper body curves with purpose, angles on a chair as if from a tower overlooking a village by the sea. Her bones are strong everywhere, in her cheeks, her shoulders, her hands. They are made from something more durable like iron or brass. When she smiles, it is as if a bell has been struck, as if music has entered the world the way God intended: at noon by the sea. — Daisy Hernandez

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality. — Yvette Clarke

The typewriter is neat and compact and sturdy and blue, just the right machine to pound out a missive of love. When you strike the keys it's a sound that hasn't been heard in the qorld world for thirty years (we are so far away from a time when typewriters won world wars). When you strike the keys they make a sound like a pistol shot, a sound so definite and sure you feel like a genius, or an orayor orator, or a beat poet. When you strike the keys you just want to keep on fucking writing. You have to wrestle with the thing, like I am doing now, steer it like an old manual car, keep the words together and right and on the page, but the blood and muscle of a typewriter, it is a beautiful thing. — Yvette Walker

Sleeping is forgetting and forgetting is peace. — Yvette Christianse

Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed. — Yvette Girouard

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores. — Yvette Nicole Brown

It's always fun to see where my journey takes me and how sometimes what's not on the list is so much better than what you could have imagined. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred. — Maile Meloy

Yvette informs me janitors cannot fly. Vampires, however, can. "Vampires are gross," I determine. "Have you even read Twilight?" "I've read so many things that are not that. — Sara Wolf

Truth has a certain sound to it. Your spirit will hear it clearly and leap inside of you and you will feel hope; even if your mind is still wrestling with all the pieces. — Yvette R. Dempster

We must educate our sons to save our daughters — Yvette Cooper

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.' — Yvette Nicole Brown

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back. — Yvette Christianse

'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons. — Yvette Nicole Brown

When you embrace worthiness, you stop worrying about what "they" think because you've made peace with what YOU think. — Shannon Yvette Tanner

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. — Yvette Clarke

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream. — Yvette Clarke

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy. — Yvette Nicole Brown

They say that men should look at the mother of the girl they intend to marry," Yvette said. "Girls who did what I did should consider the wife a man has discarded or worn out, and know thye are not going to do much better. — V.S. Naipaul

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak. — Yvette Nicole Brown

It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always. — Yvette Nicole Brown

There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities. — Yvette Clarke

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top. — Yvette Nicole Brown

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference. — Yvette Nicole Brown

I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years. — Yvette Cooper

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him. — Yvette Nicole Brown

A confident woman does not chase love, she "attracts" it. — Shannon Yvette Tanner

Everything that's alive has an etheric counterpart. — Yvette LeBlanc

I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless. — Yvette Nicole Brown

I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson. — Yvette Nicole Brown