Yianis Quotes & Sayings

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics. — Tadashi Yanai

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director. — Antonio Banderas

Life is a grand party. — Ezra Miller

When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble. — Warren Buffett

Children naturally ask all kinds of questions and take a long time to tell their stories, and in millions of homes the parents are doing something else as they reply, "Yes, yes, I see." And in millions of homes, the parents are surprised when their children don't listen to them.
Those little bright eyes know when your attention is wandering. When they are telling you the news from school, give your full attention. Everything else can be set aside for the moment. You are teaching your children to listen to you. — Eknath Easwaran

In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor. — Ally Carter

What's that sound I hear?
It's just my lifetime
It's whistling past my ear — Gayle Forman

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece. — Peter Shaffer

Where's your dog?" Peter's voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard.
"Pardon?"
"Your dog."
"Yes?"
"Isn't he with you today?" Justin looked at Peter.
"Ha bloody ha." Peter stuck his head out of the stream of water, features dripping. He smiled shyly.
"I love greyhounds." Justin stared.
"My dog is imaginary."
"Oh." Peter looked interested. "That's unusual." Justin put his head under the water. When he emerged, Peter was still looking at him.
"Less work," Peter offered, cheerily. "If the dog's imaginary, I mean. Not so much grooming, feeding, et cetera. — Meg Rosoff

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith

It's not human to let go of love, even when it's dead. We expected one of these monthly
anniversaries to be the Final Goodbye. We figured that we'd said all our goodbyes, and given up all the tears we had to give. We'd passed the test
and would get back what we'd lost. But instead, every anniversary it hurt more, and every anniversary it felt like she was further away from coming
back. The idea that there wouldn't be a final goodbye - that was a hard goodbye to say in itself and, at that point, still an impossible goodbye. No
private eye has to tell you it's a long goodbye. — Rob Sheffield