Quote by Yann Martel Download Open image ““Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.”” — Yann Martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.” — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“All I'm saying is: if there's a pool and people are in the pool and you're not in the pool, you want to be… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“And by the way, I enjoyed your pool very much. It's a shame you'll never get me that wet.” — Angela Graham Copy Share Image
“It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Olympics. He knew well the allure of the Games having been there three times. Wanting that gold medal was like a drug” — Eleanor Webb Copy Share Image
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto,… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
