Pico Iyer Quotes

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautyMusicImaginationSpaceRest

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Jessamyn West

JusticeTerribleNecessaryThing

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.

John Barton

IdeasDrawingSometimesBecomeWord

It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall.

Sophia Amoruso

PowerTogetherSucceedFashionYou

The biggest thing for me is earning the respect of my fellow players and coaches. I think that is why I was a little bit emotional. You don't get a haka done to you from the brothers for no reason if they don't respect you.

Sonny Bill Williams

RespectMeThinkYouDoneWhy

I just want people to know me.

Romeo Santos

PeopleMeKnowWantJust

I am ridiculously high-maintenance.

Rufus Wainwright

I AmAmRidiculously

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Julia Roberts

WomenLiveSocietyStartChanceSee

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Donal Henahan

Real EstateRealNextEstateArtists

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

Johnny Van Zant

CountryOldTraditionalLoverMarty

If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.

Dominick Cruz

WorldChampionYouWantPlanetBeat

People find pleasure in hating someone. I think it's the beginning of kali. If someone has betrayed you, it's understandable that you hate them. But hating someone you don't even know... that's something I will never understand.

Dhanush

HateBeginningPeopleThinkSomeone

My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.

Dorothy Hamill

MusicPassionHopeChildrenParents

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