Pico Iyer Quotes

Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 11, 1957

Topics

WinterLightMeLookingUniqueWant

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

Jeffrey Jones

WorkIntelligencePeopleTheatreGo

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

Spencer Kayden

LiveHopeMyselfDisappointmentVery

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.

Travis Scott

MusicMeSayingFeelYouKnow

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making.

Matisyahu

LifeMusicMyselfMeBridgeMy Life

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

Michael Symon

FamilyTimeMoneyRestHolidays

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

Michael Kelly

PoliticsPeopleCrazyThinkWantUp

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Diane Abbott

FoodInformationTideJunk FoodJunk

I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.

Christina Baker Kline

HistoryLookingThinkFindDownGo

I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.

Bob Corker

GreatAccountingFinancialBeyond

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

Antony Beevor

LookingYouFindKnowGoingWorking

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Wilson Mizner

AngerLongInevitableDegreeRule

The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

PropertyNumberEssentialFixedArea

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