« All Catching Quotes
·
Yann Martel's Page
Catching Quotes by Yann Martel
1 Catching quote by Yann Martel
More Quotes by Yann Martel
Yann Martel has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
-
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
-
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
-
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
-
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
-
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
-
If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
-
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
-
Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
-
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
-
It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
-
Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
See all 214 quotes by Yann Martel »
More Catching Quotes
Popular Catching quotes from across the collection:
-
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— Honore de Balzac
-
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks…
— Marlon Brando
-
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
— Jeff Bridges
-
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more…
— Warren Buffett
-
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to…
— John Jay Chapman
-
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
— Unknown Author
-
I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely…
— Bobby Jones
-
I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the…
— Edwin Way Teale
-
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client…
— Unknown Author
-
There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security…
— P.G. Wodehouse
-
Come away; poverty's catching.
— Aphra Behn
See all Catching Quotes »
Check Out More Catching Quotes by Other Authors
Browse Yann Martel Quotes by Category