Yann Martel Quotes

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Travel

• I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Trump

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Big

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• I think I really benefited from going to college.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • College
  • Going

• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Personal
  • Open

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Streets
  • Mama

• I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • She
  • Remember
  • Funny

• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Ifs

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• As ships becalmed at eve, that layWith canvas drooping, side by side,Two towers of sail, at dawn of dayAre scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Long
  • Canvas

• I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Long
  • Drama
  • Relax

• If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Joy

• You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Joy