Yann Martel Quotes
I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.Yann Martel
Quotes to Explore
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
Adam McKay -
I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
Taylor Dane -
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Jack Welch -
I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
Yvonne Strahovski -
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Jack Kingston -
I can't imagine working without and audience.
Bea Arthur
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
Yulia Tymoshenko -
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
Walter Kirn -
I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.
Zeljko Ivanek -
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
Oscar Hijuelos -
When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
Lake Bell
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
Garth Brooks -
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Carlos Fuentes -
Take three quarts of duck's milk...
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
She says noWhen she means yesAnd what she wantsYou know that I can't guess.When we want moreYou know we ask for lessSuch is the language of love...
Dan Fogelberg -
I love the sound of those engines.
Vanna Bonta -
I suspect the Haitian Ministry of Health's principal contribution to health in Haiti is providing nice, healthy jobs to those Haitians with the connection to get them.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Even things that are true can be proved.
Oscar Wilde -
It Justice is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.
Aristotle -
There's people in hell who want ice water.
Nelson Algren -
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.
Jeanine Basinger -
I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.
Rirkrit Tiravanija -
I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
Yann Martel