Pico Iyer Quotes

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommunicationMusicEndLoseWill

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

John Abizaid

WordsYourselfYouEnemyNewBring

Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do the same for marketers and media companies.

John Battelle

SearchInternetMediaNewWillSame

I heard from other people on Twitter that they're very excited about Twisty Halloween costumes, and all I can think is, 'You people are nuts!'

John Carroll Lynch

PeopleThinkYouI CanNutsExcited

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

Melissa McCarthy

FunThinkBoringMoreReasonPretty

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

Robert Plant

YouKnowBelongWhereBritish

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden

FriendshipGoodThankfulArtDay

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Steve Jobs

PeopleMeDesignMeaningNothing

I got called Scarface at school.

Trudie Styler

SchoolGot

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

Tom Petty

HealthThinkCareMental HealthYou

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

Roland Emmerich

WorkPeopleYouFindExcitedGet

I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for me: it's had wonderful, sedative, remedial qualities for my day-to-day life.

Ronnie Corbett

LifeFearBalanceMeWorldGolf

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Mary Schmich

LoveMoviesAdmireSeeFunctionWho

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