« All Them Quotes · Yann Martel's Page
Them Quotes by Yann Martel
- A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
- If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
- I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
- I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air.…
- All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and…
- Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones…
- Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as…
- Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the…
- Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once…
- My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster