Yann Martel Quotes

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• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Know
  • Conscience
  • Resistance

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Will
  • Going
  • Guess

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Control
  • Trump
  • Health care

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Should
  • Sin

• I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Lose
  • Losing
  • Chess

• I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stop

• Idling is not my strong suit.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Strong
  • Suit
  • Idling

• I believe becoming an adult isn't a good thing for a guy. I think that guys should not forget about its youthful soul. So I want to say that I still have a heart of a baby or an elementary school kid.

  

  Daesung
  • Good
  • Believe
  • School

• I don't have any interest in cashing out or leaving the business or doing something else. I just love Subway, and I want to keep focusing on the company for the benefit of all our franchise owners. So I'm kind of like married to the job.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Business
  • Job
  • Leaving

• Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Words
  • English
  • Islamic

• I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear short skirts - but I think at 78, one's got to act one's age.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Age
  • Cold

• There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities...

  

  Allen Tate
  • Time
  • Words
  • Dark

• Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Cold