Yann Martel Quotes

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

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• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • Strong
  • Church

• You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Question
  • Questions

• I'm very wary of news on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Television
  • Very
  • News

• Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Kid
  • Crush
  • Biggest

• My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Business
  • War
  • Hand

• Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • You
  • Space

• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Going
  • Everyone

• And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Fun
  • Star
  • Grew

• Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Great
  • Boat

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Blue

• At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • First
  • Step
  • Brand

• I understand how the economy actually works.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Understand
  • Economy
  • How

• If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.

  

  Anthony Collins
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Writing
  • College
  • Kind

• Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Baptism
  • Spiritual Life
  • Sacraments

• If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Believe