Pico Iyer Quotes

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveTravelMeWorldYouSecret

Popular applause veers with the wind.

John Bright

WindApplausePopular

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

John Cleese

FatherGodYouPowerfulKnowRather

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LiveMeThinkingHellHeavenGo

The main objective - our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that's the bigger pressure you put on yourself.

Angela Ahrendts

ChangeJobChange The WorldSoulYou

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

Michael Franti

GoodMusicSleepMeFeel GoodFeet

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

Sia

GoodFeelSongwritingLikeReally

I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'

Siddhartha Mukherjee

HomeVisionManLookWayWrite

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

Ron Silver

MeKindSpiritAbout

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

Mike Simpson

GreatFlexibilityDealAllies

Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet.

Misty Copeland

DieHoldMightJustLikeBallet

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

GodFirstLastChainLinkHe

Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.

Jose Andres

SmartMeBookYouWantFirst

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