Pico Iyer Quotes

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HomeParentsDestinyYouFindGo

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

Joe Cocker

GuitarWantNeverKidUpNoise

I tell my clients to feel powerful - you and only you own your power. You are the one who can make yourself eat right, work out and not touch the biscuits.

Jessie Pavelka

WorkPowerYourselfYouPowerful

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Tom Odell

ProgressSongBetterYouFirstGet

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

Mary Badham

GoodTimeHaving A Good TimePlaying

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

Michio Kaku

ComputersPlanProfessionalGo

I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.

Michael T. Flynn

VoteMilitaryBecauseLeadersMuch

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

Luke Perry

MistakesPeopleChoicesThinkOwn

I would absolutely be interested in doing a Broadway production if it was the right project. But my dream is to be writing pieces of theater for my best friends and putting on plays in New York City and seeing our vision come alive. I just hope to always be creating.

Lucas Hedges

HopeVisionBestNew YorkCity

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Liza Minnelli

FatherMotherDreamsMeDriveGave

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

Lobsang Tenzin

PeopleImportantIntimacyIndividual

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Joseph Addison

ManGreatnessRedHeavenCountry

I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him.

Jon Gruden

LoveAppreciateWishI WishWatching

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