Yannick Quotes & Sayings

Get the moon to phase with you. The tide to lap at your door. Call it Rose or Aunty, but never what it is. — Yannick Murphy

I look at his bloodshot eyes and wonder if it affects what he sees, everything covered by a veil of red lace that his hands can't ever lift. — Yannick Murphy

Your child is happy. What else could you want? — Yannick Noah

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too. — Yannick Noah

But she is not looking down, but looking up maybe, some kind of fortune teller who can read futures in passing dark clouds. — Yannick Murphy

I am happy to see him on the couch, his huge feet on the arm, dirtying the cloth. I am happy to hear him stomping upstairs across the floorboards and whipping towels at his sisters after he has showered. I am happy to hear him screaming for no reason, bounding down the stairs, reaching the bottom and wildly petting Nelly, shaking her head back and forth, and calling her a good girl. I think how it doesn't matter who shot my son. My son is back. — Yannick Murphy

People judged my work without to have listened to it. — Yannick Noah

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat. — Yannick Noah

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. — Yannick Noah

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting. — Yannick Noah

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible. — Yannick Noah

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right. — Yannick Noah

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media. — Yannick Noah

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us. — Yannick Noah

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer. — Yannick Noah

She looks like what fishermen don't want after hours spent cutting debris out of their nets. — Yannick Murphy

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. — Yannick Noah

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. — Yannick Noah

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. — Yannick Noah

THOUGHTS ON RIDE HOME: If my levels get too high, if they talk too much, then put me out of my misery and burn me on a pyre, that's how I want to go. Don't bother with a backhoe to try and dig the hole. Take down the trees to build the pyre off our land. Let the Newfoundlands have my bones. Let them walk the property drooling with my femur between their massive jaws. I am renewable energy. — Yannick Murphy

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. — Yannick Noah

You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on. — Yannick Murphy

My mother still thinks of things to do for him. Light church candles, name a star, send money to somewhere. — Yannick Murphy

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends. — Yannick Noah

After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important. — Yannick Noah

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland. — Yannick Noah

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special. — Yannick Noah

If caught wearing white and you stain, stand and spread out your skirt, let the boys read into it shapes like blots of ink. — Yannick Murphy

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable. — Yannick Noah

Her fingers are still cool, like ivory on piano keys and they are that pale and he looks at her face, drawn and pale too. — Yannick Murphy

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior. — Yannick Noah

You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it. — Yannick Murphy