Yann Martel Quotes

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

Yann Martel

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• A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Want
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Like
  • Priorities
  • Remembered

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • May
  • Past

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Years
  • Been
  • January

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Ears

• I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Leadership
  • Lunch

• I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Addict
  • Downfall

• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Kind
  • More

• I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Love
  • Walk

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

  

  John Coltrane
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • Character
  • Attitude

• The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.

  

  Akiane Kramarik
  • God
  • Faith
  • Communicate

• It is no longer economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Different
  • Faith
  • Brother