Pico Iyer Quotes

I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautifulYouComfortableNeverTurn

Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.

John Benjamin Hickey

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I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

Jens Martin Skibsted

IntelligenceControlThinkWantNeed

New Zealanders can be a little hostile.

Melanie Lynskey

NewLittleHostile

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

John Hurt

ManDestinyAlwaysInjuryBeen

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

John Jay Hooker

ConstitutionMoreYearsUnitedBeen

Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.

Tracy Reese

WomanSheRunwayModelShouldEvery

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

Rosalind Russell

BeautyWomanTalentJoyPerformance

I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

Matt Bomer

FootballAlwaysGuyWhoFringeDid

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

Juan Felipe Herrera

YouStopThreeBellOverLine

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Dmitri Mendeleev

DeterminedThingsEquilibriumMedium

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

Demetri Martin

WiseNothingEverPrinted

For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.

Claire Denis

PeopleMindSocietyHospitalityFilm

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