Yann Martel Quotes

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

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• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Pain
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Truth
  • True
  • Truth Is

• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • Asset

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Political
  • Education

• I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Work
  • Love
  • Career

• I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Kids
  • Woman
  • Husband

• Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Want
  • Style
  • Religion

• There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Good
  • Common
  • Core

• I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Open

• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Risk

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Cinema

• I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Moments

• After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Know
  • Alone
  • Learn

• What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Education

• There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

  

  Jason Chaffetz

• Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Nature