I never like losing but if we win (today) we win the series, and that's what you have to do against ...
DENNIS MARTEL Gilbert kept us in the game and gave us a chance to win which is what you want at that point. He did...
DENNIS MARTEL Matt has pitched well. I thought when I recruited him he was pretty good, but I've been pleasantly s...
DENNIS MARTEL Our two freshman pitchers pitched outstanding today. They stepped up big for us and pitched the way ...
DENNIS MARTEL The whole day we were behind the whole time. We're just finding ways to lose which is really frustra...
DENNIS MARTEL We finally started hitting. We had gone 24 innings and only scored two runs. Luckily we salvaged the...
DENNIS MARTEL We had a great week and one bad day. We just didn't hit.
DENNIS MARTEL Our first six batters are as good as anybody in the country. Nine of our 10 runs were by those guys....
DENNIS MARTEL I think he is OK. It was one of those games we needed out of a kid who can give us an extra starter....
DENNIS MARTEL Twenty wins, it's always a good benchmark.
DENNIS MARTEL If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
YANN MARTEL Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the re...
YANN MARTEL Cinema is incredibly concise.
YANN MARTEL It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are t...
YANN MARTEL May books spread the world over!
YANN MARTEL You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a...
YANN MARTEL Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's som...
YANN MARTEL Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the eff...
YANN MARTEL How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer,...
YANN MARTEL I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with...
YANN MARTEL A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imag...
YANN MARTEL Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing...
YANN MARTEL A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them ver...
YANN MARTEL I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
YANN MARTEL 'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
YANN MARTEL Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or...
YANN MARTEL I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need thin...
YANN MARTEL I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautif...
YANN MARTEL I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas abou...
YANN MARTEL Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book...
YANN MARTEL Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
YANN MARTEL I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
YANN MARTEL Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which m...
YANN MARTEL Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief...
YANN MARTEL The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
YANN MARTEL If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude...
YANN MARTEL The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, ...
YANN MARTEL All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable wa...
YANN MARTEL I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...
YANN MARTEL These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside....
YANN MARTEL If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover....
YANN MARTEL When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
YANN MARTEL To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is s...
YANN MARTEL Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life t...
YANN MARTEL In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums...
YANN MARTEL I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall.
YANN MARTEL Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
YANN MARTEL I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. The...
YANN MARTEL If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce o...
YANN MARTEL It was a close match. (But) I thought our seniors really stepped up.
BRIAN MARTEL We had different kids step up this time that didn't last time and that was the difference in us gett...
BRIAN MARTEL Our younger kids stepped up for us and our seniors gave us the wins that we needed.
BRIAN MARTEL It was everything we thought it would be and more. The key was keeping the matches closer and pickin...
BRIAN MARTEL He knows he can do the job. It's just a confidence thing.
BRIAN MARTEL They don't know what it's like not to go. There is a lot of pressure because they don't want to be k...
BRIAN MARTEL This was one of the closer ones we've seen. But we were expecting that. Eaton Rapids has a lot of go...
BRIAN MARTEL Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at...
YANN MARTEL It's like it's not real. It really hasn't sunk in yet. It comes and goes.
JOSEE MARTEL It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left...
YANN MARTEL To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
YANN MARTEL Patrick was on his way to see his father and so was I -- a bit too late. That's when he had the acci...
JOSEE MARTEL It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterw...
YANN MARTEL I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion o...
YANN MARTEL There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the ...
YANN MARTEL Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deept trust, a free act of love- but sometimes it was...
YANN MARTEL What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony ...
YANN MARTEL When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for...
YANN MARTEL So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way,...
YANN MARTEL Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
YANN MARTEL Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparat...
YANN MARTEL All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable wa...
YANN MARTEL As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
YANN MARTEL You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much bett...
YANN MARTEL Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but ...
YANN MARTEL You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
YANN MARTEL It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though...
YANN MARTEL I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The mor...
YANN MARTEL It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pa...
YANN MARTEL My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does n...
YANN MARTEL Religion is more than rite and ritual.
YANN MARTEL No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectat...
MAHIMA MARTEL But immobilizing darts don't bring on sleep gently, like a good cup of tea; they knock out like a bo...
YANN MARTEL It used to be it was just a bunch of salty old fishermen that went down there and fished from the ba...
GARY MARTEL Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
YANN MARTEL The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
YANN MARTEL I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion...
YANN MARTEL Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they...
YANN MARTEL You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
YANN MARTEL Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you h...
YANN MARTEL In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head a...
YANN MARTEL Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown be...
YANN MARTEL Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was...
YANN MARTEL Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellu...
YANN MARTEL Roetown, of mixed economy, neither boom nor bust, just ordinary times — that is, hard — had a sl...
YANN MARTEL All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ...
YANN MARTEL I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice ...
YANN MARTEL I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most...
YANN MARTEL That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to...
YANN MARTEL If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why h...
YANN MARTEL If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
YANN MARTEL The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautif...
YANN MARTEL Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, b...
YANN MARTEL Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, b...
YANN MARTEL My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
YANN MARTEL Agama bukan sekadar ritual dan tata cara. Ada makna di balik ritual dan tata cara itu.
YANN MARTEL It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they g...
YANN MARTEL Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become som...
YANN MARTEL He's just a truly outstanding talent. He's been quite consistent all season.
GARY MARTEL I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever kill...
YANN MARTEL Motivul pentru care moartea se ţine atât de aproape de viaţă nu e necesitatea biologică - e inv...
YANN MARTEL I don't see it penciling out for (Mahoning Valley). I wouldn't do it. I don't have that big an ego t...
JASON MARTEL I tried my best to get it here. I thought this was the year it really would have made sense for us.
JASON MARTEL They felt like they were the hosts, and it was their tournament to say they don't want to host it. T...
JASON MARTEL Anyone on our team could win the race on a given day. We're all so close it's just a matter of who h...
JAKE MARTEL Coach gave us some goals to shoot for, and that's about what they wanted us to run.
JAKE MARTEL But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free ...
YANN MARTEL At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the univer...
YANN MARTEL ...he found it where he should have looked first, on the Internet, which is a net indeed, one that c...
YANN MARTEL He's always positive. He's always pumping us up after we come off the field. He tells us stores abou...
MARTEL STRANGE It just started off when he was telling a story about his favorite players and his family, then it l...
MARTEL STRANGE He's worked with many people over the years, but we seem to be his favorite. With him not being ther...
MARTEL STRANGE Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at...
YANN MARTEL Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know...
FELIX DENNIS Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like....
DENNIS PRAGER What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. ...
DENNIS QUAID I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or any...
DENNIS WILSON Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
DENNIS ECKERSLEY More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
DENNIS PRAGER One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. ...
DENNIS HASTERT In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
DENNIS RODMAN Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a camera...
DENNIS MUREN I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
DENNIS RODMAN As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
DENNIS POTTER I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit b...
DENNIS QUAID There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burn...
FELIX DENNIS I always want to find the best burger in town.
DENNIS QUAID 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society...
FELIX DENNIS The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I&#...
FELIX DENNIS You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
FELIX DENNIS There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
FELIX DENNIS The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
FELIX DENNIS You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ...
FELIX DENNIS I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wra...
FELIX DENNIS Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind th...
FELIX DENNIS The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
FELIX DENNIS There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
FELIX DENNIS America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic,...
FELIX DENNIS Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how c...
FELIX DENNIS Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them...
FELIX DENNIS I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive...
FELIX DENNIS It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
FELIX DENNIS You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on m...
DENNIS QUAID When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or Joh...
DENNIS FARINA Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leav...
DENNIS MILLER When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
DENNIS QUAID To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
DENNIS WEAVER It was an awesome place to play and I made a lot of friends here.
ADAM DENNIS A few times I wanted to leave my net to move the puck up but I wasn't sure where it was coming from,...
ADAM DENNIS You can't really change anything game to game so you just try to go in relaxed.
ADAM DENNIS No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but t...
ADAM DENNIS From the start of the year, 40 wins was a goal of mine and it just happened that 41 was the league r...
ADAM DENNIS That wasn't a friendly thing. He shot the puck down the ice at me so I fired it back.
ADAM DENNIS I didn't play very well. He's a good goalie and deserved a chance to play. I just feel like I let th...
ADAM DENNIS Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your ...
DENNIS RAINEY After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second...
DENNIS MILLER The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
DENNIS MILLER The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a ...
DENNIS WHOLEY There's something ugly about the flawless.
DENNIS LEHANE See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
DENNIS SHARPE Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FRAKES Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
PATRICK DENNIS Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
DENNIS RODMAN A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
JOHN DENNIS You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex...
DENNIS HOPPER There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin...
EVERETTE DENNIS For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to ...
DENNIS FRANZ Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftis...
DENNIS ALTMAN My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over t...
DENNIS CONNER How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society w...
DENNIS PRAGER The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the ...
DENNIS PRAGER Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
DENNIS PRAGER One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's ...
DENNIS PRAGER Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance ha...
DENNIS PRAGER My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in mo...
DENNIS PRAGER A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, Geo...
DENNIS MILLER Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FAKES Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
DENNIS PRAGER Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometim...
DENNIS PRAGER In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and th...
DENNIS PRAGER Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionat...
DENNIS PRAGER If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than...
DENNIS PRAGER Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secular...
DENNIS PRAGER