Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
-
Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
-
Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
-
For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
-
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
-
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
-
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
-
God doesn't know things. He is things.
-
I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
-
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
-
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
-
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
-
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
-
I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
-
My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
-
I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
-
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
-
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
-
It really took me a long time to become comfortable as a performer. I think I'm finally starting to enjoy playing live.
-
I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
