Yann Martel Quotes
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.Yann Martel
Quotes to Explore
-
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
Nathan Myhrvold -
I want to continue to be me and share with people.
J. R. Martinez -
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
Ed Harris -
Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
Babasaheb -
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis -
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
Banks
-
'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
Laura Slade Wiggins -
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field -
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi -
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
J. R. Smith
-
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
Famke Janssen -
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
Karen Allen -
I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
Kara Swisher -
There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
Octavia Spencer -
I'm not a god - I do bad things.
Jackie Chan -
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
Harold Robbins
-
Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.
Jeffery Deaver -
Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
Don Cornelius -
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
Luc Ferrari -
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
Marian Seldes -
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
Yann Martel