Yann Martel Quotes

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

Yann Martel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: June 25, 1963

Topics

GoodWordsMindYouComplicatedTry

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Johan Huizinga

NatureManWarControlFeetChains

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

Andrew Cuomo

WomenBelieveFaceGlassI Believe

Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'

Matthew Ramsey

WorkWritingSongYouGoSometimes

With the passing of Milton Friedman on November 16, 2006, we lost one of the great champions of free markets.

Steve Hanke

GreatFreeChampionsLostPassing

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

Stanley Hauerwas

LifeSilenceWarRightTakeTaken

I'm getting money over here. I'm good, I'm young, I'm finally in a position to feed my family; please don't take that away from me.

Tory Lanez

FamilyGoodMoneyMeYoungOver

I have been giving live performances since childhood, and I continue to do so professionally.

Roop Durgapal

LiveChildhoodGivingBeenContinue

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Miley Cyrus

PossibleTalkAlwaysThingsSing

You would think that, at this point, with records being kept and the vast amount of knowledge on these drugs, the pharmacists could wave off prescriptions that are dangerous to customers.

Dick Durbin

KnowledgeThinkWaveYouDangerous

When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I'm trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking 'Star Trek' to someone who's talking 'Star Wars.' Anyway, it doesn't work out usually when I 'try' to be funny.

Coy Bowles

WorkFunnyMeBrainDriveStart

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

Clive Barker

ThinkMoviesHorrorContradiction

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Ricardo Lagos

PovertyFrontierAbleCross

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