Pico Iyer Quotes

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

Jim Valvano

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Even now, I still get a bit apprehensive before a game because I am worried about whether I have done enough preparation or if something is going to catch me out. But the fear factor has gone - as it should have done by now, really, after nearly 50 years.

John Motson

FearI AmPreparationMeGameDone

Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.

Max Brooks

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I make it my business to be around people that don't look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them.

Andy Mineo

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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Jeff Bezos

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I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

Steve Buscemi

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Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.

Stacy Schiff

WomenGreatTimeEnjoyYouEarly

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

Mary Hart

RelationshipsWillTalkSheInside

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean de la Bruyere

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An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well over the long haul.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?

Johnny Ramone

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Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

Donnie Yen

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