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Pico Iyer Quotes

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Home Sleep End Stand You Place

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

Mind Being Like Kids Songs Ripped

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

I Am Society Find Place Earth Which

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

Good Programming Pretty Income Like

With 'Greek Gods,' I wanted to go with the blue and green hues of sky and water; with 'Heroes,' I felt the color needed to be more dramatic and give a sense of battle, rage, and yes, of blood. That's the world these demigods lived in, and I felt that orange and red would also compliment the greenish blue of the 'Gods' cover.

Water Sky Red Blue Green World

Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

Stephen LaBerge

Dreams Time Experience Feel Anxiety

If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.

Time Experience People College You

I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.

Ride Smart People Me Goodbye Start

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Place Why Cave First Up Seem

'Crime Story' was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.

Me Story Know Crime Names Whatever

When we make these movies, you sign up for an experience. It's not just, 'Action! Cut!' There's not that safety in it. It's kind of a dangerous place to be. I mean, it is safe, but it gets personal. It's no longer about saying the lines. It's about really having an experience.

Derek Cianfrance

Experience Safety Action Saying You

I was about 7 and my family was eating at a restaurant when we saw my first Elvis impersonator by total accident.

Family Eating Restaurant First Saw

I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.

Christoffel Wiese

Happy World Being Happy Africa Being

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