Yann Martel Quotes

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Yann Martel

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• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Color

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Inspire

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Stealing
  • Few

• I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Age
  • Loved
  • Animals

• My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Kiss
  • London

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Thought

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Ifs
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Tchaikovsky

• And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fall
  • Hands
  • Tears

• The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Souls
  • Melancholy
  • Reserved

• The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

  

  Paul Newman
  • World
  • Children
  • Program

• I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • American
  • Community

• We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Born
  • Catholic