Top 32 Quotes About The Life Of Pi: Famous Quotes & Sayings About The Life Of Pi

#1. The Life of Pi' timelessly encapsulates an objectively true & real meme that God is Love and seeks out those He calls unto himself."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#2. It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.

Yann Martel

#3. I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.

Yann Martel

#4. There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi

Yann Martel

#5. Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25

Yann Martel

#6. Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

Yann Martel

#7. Ang Lee's been nominated for Best Director for Life of Pi, which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off!

Amy Poehler

#8. But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

Yann Martel

#9. 'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Yann Martel

#10. Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

Yann Martel

#11. I would like congratulate everyone who was a part of 'Life of Pi.'

Anupam Kher

#12. I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Yann Martel

#13. A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

Yann Martel

#14. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Yann Martel

#15. Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Daniel Tammet

#16. How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Yann Martel

#17. Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand and appreciate the qualities a visionary director needs to create an otherworldly adventure.

Richard Corliss

#18. Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.

Yann Martel

#19. We believe what we see.' ... What do you do when you're in the dark?

Yann Martel

#20. 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 the legs of reason will carry them
and then they leap.

Yann Martel

#21. For example
I wonder
could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

Yann Martel

#22. Yes! Practice-singular!' the wise men screamed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize their point (Life of Pi 68).

Yann Martel

#23. We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

Ang Lee

#24. 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.

Yann Martel

#25. I don't know if I saw blood before turning into Mother's arms or if I daubed it on later, in my memory, with a brush (Life of Pi 36)

Yann Martel

#26. Once upon a time there was a banana and it grew. It grew until it was large, firm, yellow and fragrant. Then it fell to the ground and someone came upon it and ate it and afterwards that person felt better.

Martel, Yann

#27. Before 'Life of Pi,' I wanted to do economics. And now, I realize how bad a mistake that would have been. I just can't see it as my cup of tea anymore.

Suraj Sharma