Yann Martel Quotes

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Yann Martel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImaginationRealityPlayFictionHow

I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.

Shooter Jennings

MusicMeThinkThoughtAttentionGo

A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge.

Louis D. Brandeis

FamilyManCityCollegeBetter

I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

Lisa Gardner

LawyersUniquePhoneKnowCrimeOut

What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that has been repetitive and established over many, many years, it doesn't actually mean there's any virtue to doing it that way at all.

Jonathan Ive

HabitPracticeThinkDoingWayMean

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

Debra Winger

GoodBusinessYouLoseActingKnow

The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

Chiang Kai-shek

EqualityUnityWorldRestRevolution

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

Allen Iverson

WinLoseToo MuchSayGamesGoing

It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts.

Aliette de Bodard

GreatFocusedSeemsMajorityOnly

It's not like a boss and artist relationship; it's like a big brother to a younger brother relationship, and he's a great guy. So big shout-out to Akon and the Konvict Muzik crowd.

WizKid

RelationshipGreatBossBrotherBig

I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from.

Phyllis Smith

CollegeWishAttentionClassMore

If you believe that the mobile phone is the next supercomputer, which I do, you can imagine a datacenter that is modeled after, literally, hundreds or thousands or millions of mobile phones. They won't have screens on them, but there'll be millions of lightweight mobile-phone processors in the datacenter.

Peter Levine

BelieveYouPhonePhonesNextAfter

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Peggy Lee

LifeLoveMusicSingingRoadYou

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