Yann Martel Quotes
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
Yann Martel
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
Hanya Yanagihara
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender
I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
Flume
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
Karen Bender
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
Gabriel Iglesias
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field
If I was to pick out a new instrument to learn how to play, I thought the didgeridoo would be cool and not a lot of people play it.
Alex Aiono
When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.
Kay Redfield Jamison
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
Calvin Trillin
When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort.
L. Ron Hubbard
Vince missed a left-handed lay-in and all of a sudden we looked like a team that didn't have confidence. I'm really, really disappointed that we broke down defensively.
Dan Monson
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
Yann Martel
