Yia Yia Quotes

#1. We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it - that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

Quentin Tarantino

#3. But what happens when you don't find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn't great, everything isn't perfect, but it is nice and sweet?

Miranda Kenneally

#4. There's a peculiar porcelain bathtub in a field; almost as though it has been placed there for Salvador Dali to come and capture.

Tom Chesshyre

#5. A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt.

David Powning

#6. I am not concerned at present with blame; I am trying to find out truth.

C.S. Lewis

#7. If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Kenneth L. Pike

#8. Duryodhana tells Dronacharya7 that his own pupil, Dhrishtadyumna8 has planned the deployment (on the Pandava side). They are, on both sides, his pupils, to whom he has imparted the same knowledge. But it depends on them whether they use that knowledge well or for ill.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Ray Manzarek