Yann Martel Quotes

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

Yann Martel

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• More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Real
  • Key

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Life
  • Finish
  • Winner

• I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Yourself

• I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Job
  • Try

• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Life
  • Today
  • Change

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Live
  • Personal

• I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Bored

• I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Chance

• I love all types of braids. Single, multiple, box braids - I try them all.

  

  Zendaya
  • Single
  • Try
  • Types

• Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi

• There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Good
  • Done
  • Home

• You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.

  

  Marques Houston
  • People
  • Movie

• In conclusion, a word about your tired expression that there is a difference between theory and praxis. ... Thereby you want to say that praxis should be an unencumbered as possible by theory. Coming from you, this wish is quite intelligible. What you mean by praxis is private profit; what I mean by theory is justice.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Wish
  • Justice
  • Tired

• Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue where ego gets involved and causes some kind of shake-up.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Up
  • Band
  • Ego

• Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Single