Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

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• Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Poverty
  • Impact
  • No Regrets

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Want
  • Dresses

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Friend
  • Things
  • Him

• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Street

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Entrepreneur

• If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • You
  • Sick
  • Milk

• Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Thoughts
  • Consequences

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • Unique
  • Stars

• I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Book
  • Tired

• When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. I'd sneak down the hallway, try to avoid the creaking floor boards and go in and watch the 'Midnight Movie.'

  

  Bill Moseley
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Black

• I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Happy
  • Best
  • Moment

• Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Three

• Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Great
  • Happy
  • House