Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes

When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.

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• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Survive
  • Dress
  • To Survive

• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Different
  • Body
  • Personality

• On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Hand
  • Security
  • London

• In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Government
  • Sea
  • Process

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Sexy

• As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Political
  • Focus
  • Evil

• Truth is the best defense.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Truth Is

• 'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Me
  • Feel

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Friends
  • High

• If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Important
  • Friend

• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Change
  • Technological

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People

• You won't believe it, but my grandfather named me. And the choices were between Sparkle, Sprinkle and Twinkle. So, thank God, they chose Twinkle.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • God
  • Believe
  • Choices

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Me