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

• 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

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

  

  Joan Jett
  • God

• Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark. (p. 14)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Up
  • Writing
  • High

• I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.

  

  Autumn de Wilde
  • Events
  • Hurts
  • Better Life

• We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Father
  • Understand
  • Souls

• The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mountain

• 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