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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2c2d1ec | Do you understand? You've been praying to a crucified chimpanzee all these years. Your Son of Man is not a god-he's just an ape on a cross! | Yann Martel | ||
| a1ce71c | Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. | Yann Martel (author) | ||
| 91a3c57 | Strange in a familiar way, familiar in a strange way. | Yann Martel | ||
| a99a8e5 | a tie is a noose, | Yann Martel | ||
| bd5c6fc | And she prays with her eyes closed. It's just a crucifix. And if he's an ape, so be it-he's an ape. He's still the Son of God. | Yann Martel | ||
| 893fb18 | and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful. | Yann Martel | ||
| 07d518b | The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two or no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. | Yann Martel | ||
| b063b8f | On our last day, a few hours before we were to leave for Munnar, I hurried up the hill on the left. It strikes me now as a typically Christian scene. Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy. To one born in a religion where the battle for a single soul can be a relay race run over many centuries, with innumerable generations passing along the baton, .. | Yann Martel | ||
| f348f84 | I looked up. I couldn't see him. He was hiding at the bottom of the boat. He appeared when he threw my mother's body overboard. His mouth was red. The water boiled with fish. | Yann Martel | ||
| 3c82c1e | The voice said, "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen." | Yann Martel | ||
| d4f99c4 | Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals? | Yann Martel | ||
| 39121f5 | Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?" "We're just being reasonable." "So am I! I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out .. | Yann Martel | ||
| da93be8 | I couldn't bear to have yet another French speaker guffawing at my name, so when the man on the phone asked, "Can I 'ave your name?" I said, "I am who I am." Half an hour later two pizzas arrived for "Ian Hoolihan"." | Yann Martel | ||
| d8c17ae | Now, why does Jesus benefit the human body? Of course, he does his miracle work to impress those around him--and they are impressed. They're amazed. But to show that he is the Messiah, why does Jesus cure infirmities and feed hungry stomachs? After all, he could soar like a bird, as the devil asked him to do, or, as he himself mentioned, he could go about casting mountains into seas. These too would be miracles worthy of a Messiah. Why body.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9b6cf6e | Take my assets -- but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back. | Alfred P. Sloan | ||
| 7c84435 | Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. | Alfred P. Sloan | ||
| e9f6dcd | The sad fact is that there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, as the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim. | Yann Martel | ||
| 07199ba | It's the sun that makes a landscape, drawing out its color, defining its contours, giving it its spirit. | Yann Martel | ||
| a4ba455 | What are we without the ones we love? | Yann Martel | ||
| d50f773 | Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for telling one's secrets or the room for sulking or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness, and, of course, there are the rooms for the new members o.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 3758990 | It was only later that I realized that this voice was my own thinking, that this moment of anguish was my first inkling that I was a ceaseless monologue trapped within myself. | Yann Martel | ||
| b39b1c8 | When I was your age, I lived in bed, racked with polio. I asked myself every day, 'Where is God? Where is God? Where is God?' God never came. It wasn't God who saved me--it was medicine. Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end. If the watch doesn't work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us. | Yann Martel | ||
| b3a06a0 | To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4962be3 | It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance. | Alfred P. Sloan | ||
| 8f3e393 | Fate will not be confined by paragraphs. | Alfred Rosenberg | ||
| 2c208cf | Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany. | Alfred Rosenberg | ||
| fe579d8 | He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak. | Sheri S. Tepper | ||
| 3fb0d0f | She needed more sleep and less aggravation. | Sheri S. Tepper | ||
| 9813df5 | Fear needn't be grounded in fact to cause problems. | Sheri S. Tepper | ||
| 7656e46 | Another needless source of question marks over people's heads is links and buttons that aren't obviously clickable. As a user, I should never have to devote a millisecond of thought to whether things are clickable--or not. | Steve Krug | ||
| 289d548 | usability is about people and how they understand and use things, not about technology. | Steve Krug | ||
| fe30e25 | Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. | Alfred Stieglitz | ||
| 14baef8 | When I make a photograph, I make love. | Alfred Stieglitz | ||
| 1c55f73 | I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession | Alfred Stieglitz | ||
| 4caff8d | But there's nothing half so sweet in lifeAs love's young dream. | Thomas Moore | ||
| acade0d | A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it's worth. Take my word for it: It's really that simple. | Steve Krug | ||
| a9f665e | You actually can be too rich or too thin | Steve Krug | ||
| 6aa63b9 | The tribute most high to a head that is royal,Is love from a heart that loves liberty too. | Thomas Moore | ||
| bf2eb8f | Sincerity: that's the hard part. If you can fake that, the rest is easy. | Steve Krug | ||
| 460adca | The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice. | Alfred Thayer Mahan | ||
| 258710b | A Socrates in every classroom. | Alfred Whitney Griswold | ||
| 3785bef | Great artists have no country. | Alfred de Musset | ||
| 107491a | Eyes of unholy blue. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 93e6b69 | Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |