Sunday, November 24, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Yann Martel

« All quotes from this author
 

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
--
Chapter 1, p. 5

 
Yann Martel

» Yann Martel - all quotes »



Tags: Yann Martel Quotes, Authors starting by M


Similar quotes

 

Fascism is preoccupied by the clothing (namely the forms of state organization), National-Socialism by the body (namely the racial eugenics), whereas Legionarism is preoccupied by something much deeper: by the soul (namely by its strengthening through the cultivation of Christian virtues and its preparation with final salvation in mind, salvation dealt with by the Christian Church in the most perfect fashion).

 
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
 

He was preoccupied with left and right, as with right and wrong.

 
Lewis Carroll
 

Yes, I am preoccupied with myself. But I've forgotten what that means.

 
Antonio Porchia
 

He was preoccupied with left and right, as with right and wrong.

 
Charles (Lewis Carroll) Dodgson
 

It is only after prolonged, and often painful, self-examination that any of us can realise the extent to which our minds are in bondage to words, to phrases, to formulae. We are the children of an age which spends the best energies of its life in the discussion of life, in an atmosphere of deferred fulfillment, continually postponing the act of living to the work of mentally preparing to live. Preoccupied with these preparations, we become skeptical as to all that lies beyond; and if for a moment we pass the boundary which separates the area of discussion from the fact discussed, our minds become troubled and amazed, and we conclude, strangely enough, that we are in a land of moonshine and of dreams.

 
L. P. Jacks
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact