Pico Iyer Quotes

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HomeFuturePastYourselfPresent

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

Simon Greenleaf

CharacterPerfectionManViewWill

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

Ron Stallworth

TexasKidJustEl Paso

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

Mary Steenburgen

PeopleThinkYouSummerWantMovies

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

Michael Novak

StarsPrivacyRockEvenEntitled

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

Michael Leunig

TechnologyOpportunityPeaceHands

Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

Jason Moran

LoveIdentityAmazingMeMusicians

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

Doris Duke

BuildingHouseSeemMustIdeaMany

I've been in scenes with my brother where I've been absolutely emotionally terrified to go somewhere. But because he's my brother, I feel safe.

Dean Winters

BrotherFeelGoSafeSomewhereBeen

We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

Chris Gibson

LifeWayNeedOurPriorityPut

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Anthony Collins

EnoughWillEqualThingsAlike

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

Ashton Kutcher

HappyGoCaliforniaWhateverHere

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

Sheila Heti

PushDignityAwayMelancholyFew

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