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 -
I can't imagine working without and audience.
Bea Arthur -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
N. K. Jemisin -
'Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...'
Garth Nix -
All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
Ellen Key
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I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness.
Bobby Gould -
I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!'
Lucy Hale -
The only method of learning to bear with dignity the vicissitudes of fortune is to recall the catastrophes of others.
Polybius -
If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe -
I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.
Francis Fukuyama -
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