Pico Iyer Quotes

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautyMusicMeRestHarmonyShape

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

Jerry Weintraub

GreatLearnKnowStageGetStuff

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

John Barrow

MomentWaveYouBackDownEarth

Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.

McKayla Maroney

MomentYouKindBeing ThereSingle

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.

Meghan Daum

PastThinkGenerationYouNostalgia

The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.

Max Stirner

ManYouthWorldViewHimImprove

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

Robert Herjavec

BestDayBetterEvery DayWaiter

I'd argue that in the last few decades in America, when people are asked what they hope the future will look like, they still turn to 'Star Trek.' They hope we put aside our differences and come together as humanity, that we rise above war, poverty, racism, and other problems that have beset us.

Ronald D. Moore

FutureHopeTogetherRacismWar

I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.

Mike McCue

ExperiencePeopleInternetNewWay

Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing.

Joshua Leonard

TimeTogetherNew YorkThinkTrain

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Jared Diamond

TechnologyAdoptedInvented

I would love to fight Brock Lesnar. He's a massive dude.

Jon Jones

LoveFightWouldDudeHeMassive

Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.

Art Bell

PeopleSeeingWrongSameCannot

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