Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

Yiannis Chryssomallis

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Political
  • Middle

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • You
  • Small

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• I like to dress up every now and then.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Now
  • Dress

• A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Thinking
  • Me
  • Things

• I think soul is soul. I don't see new soul as any different to old soul.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Different
  • Think
  • Soul

• People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Place
  • Sure

• For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Drama
  • Roles
  • Theater

• As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Hands
  • Innovation
  • Step

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Spiritual
  • Struggle

• We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies - such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Work
  • History
  • Value

• This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Knowledge
  • Single
  • Understanding

• A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Friend

• It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Words
  • Period

• Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.

  

  Billy Williams
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Dad

• Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Reading

• I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Standup
  • Aloneness

• I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Fishing