Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

Yiannis Chryssomallis

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• I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Cool
  • Son
  • Walking

• Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musicals

• Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Peace
  • Day

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• Nothing exists except through language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Language
  • Nothing
  • Through

• Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Experience

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Universe
  • Sun
  • Follow

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Same
  • Speech

• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

  Ouida
  • Friends
  • See
  • Goodbye

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Walking
  • Sorry
  • Thank You

• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Big

• Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.

  

  Nell Carter

• The vehicle-stunt world is so specialized. But when you spend so long in it as a stunt coordinator, you're exposed to all the disciplines, so it's always fun to combine the two ideas - a car chase and a fight scene - and make something more dynamic.

  

  David Leitch
  • World
  • Long
  • Fun

• I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Kids

• Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

  

  George Archer
  • Friends
  • Hunting
  • Fishing

• My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Sports
  • Feelings
  • Leadership

• Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Pain
  • Sports
  • Athlete