Pico Iyer Quotes

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FeelFindDeskMoreClutterUs

In order to succeed in WWE, you're responsible. If you put in 100 percent, you get back 100 percent.

Jinder Mahal

SucceedYouBackResponsibleOrder

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

Jerome Hines

PastHappyPresentPersonPrecious

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Robert Smithson

MuseumLooksMuseumsEverythingLike

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

Stephen Collins

GoodFunParentsLawHave FunNews

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

Mary Karr

GodMeFailWillingWriterThing

If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also a singer, so maybe I'd be singing at dark jazz clubs in Brooklyn.

Miranda Rae Mayo

SingingBrooklynDarkJazzSinger

Nothing beats hard work.

Lubna Olayan

WorkHard WorkNothingHardBeats

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Jose Marti

ArmyPowerfulMoreCavePrinciple

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

Joseph Lelyveld

FoodPeopleThinkCountryMore

I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my family, came completely out of the blue after 59 years on this earth with no issues that we knew about, at least - sort of a normal run-of-the-mill guy who did his job and came home and had a family.

Chris Wood

FamilyFatherHomeJobBlueEarth

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

Clay Aiken

MotherTeacherBrotherMeBetter

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.

Brian Azzarello

WorkWellReflectiveCharacters

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