Hey quotes
484 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It was a woman who drove me to drink. Come to think of it, I never did hang around to thank her for that. 'Hey lady! Do I look all blurry to you? 'Cause you look blurry to me!'"
"Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you."
"My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die."
"Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me."
"There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness.""
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"Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death."
"The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!"
"Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!"
"People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti."
"Hey-hey-hey-hey! Smoke weed every day!"
"...this is my dilemma. I'm a guy who makes things up as I go along, so nothing is ever finished - there are so many layers. So when you solo, yeah, you might get into one thing, but then, hey, everything has implications! You can hear the next level. And that's how I feel about improvising - there's always another level."
"I like parties, but I don't like piñatas because the pinata promotes violence against flamboyant animals. Hey, there's a donkey with some pizzazz. Let's kick its ass."
"Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!"
"Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place."
"Hey, ay, ay, ay...smoke weed everyday."
"Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine!"
"I have a shield. It's the most amazing shield ever. I don't see them. I don't feel them. If anything, "Hey come over, let me touch you so I can heal you." You get what I'm saying?"
"I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful."
"I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours."
"I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!"
"We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the rodeo things, they asked me to set up and do two or three songs. So that was what I did. I did "Folsom Prison Blues," which they thought was their song - you know? - and "I Walk The Line," "Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry." And then the word got around on the grapevine that Johnny Cash is all right and that you ought to see him."
"Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'."
"There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. … The Bible [is] right every time … and that’s why AIDS has been something they haven’t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. … And that goes to what God says, ‘Hey you’re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.’"
"I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business."
"I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that."
