Yunick Quotes

#1. Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

Giannina Braschi

#2. I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

Steve Lacy

#3. It is highly probable that we choose our posture, not our problems.

T.F. Hodge

#4. If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do.

Smokey Yunick

#5. We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don't waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

Paulo Coelho

#6. The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.

Nicholas Nixon

#7. You don't race cars, you race the rule book

Smokey Yunick

#8. Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

Dave Stroud

#9. There are two types of racers- cheaters and losers.

Smokey Yunick

#10. What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.

Smokey Yunick

#12. Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#13. In the unfolding of eternity, a single lifetime was just a passing moment...' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Oliver Rixon

#14. Once the body has known death, it never lives the same again.

Arthur W. Frank

#15. Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

Tammara Webber

#16. In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

Michael Vartan

#17. but man, if you're not honest with yourself you're a lost soul swimming with the 15 foot crocodiles.

Smokey Yunick