Pico Iyer Quotes

I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

IslamEventsFollowWestSeptember

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

Jim Talent

AloneGovernmentPeopleWorldEnergy

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

Jerry Harrison

ProcessFindWillSoundMuseOnly

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.

Johannes P. Muller

OpportunityPowerLightSpaceAction

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

Robert J. Flaherty

LookingSayingYouFindGoOut

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

Jeffrey Gitomer

KnowledgeCustomerYouJustStuff

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Michael Caine

BestYouChoiceNeverAnythingGet

I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.

Roger Ailes

LimitsAccomplishStudentKnowCoach

The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you'd see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I'm walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there.

Michael Shannon

TimeDayOld FriendsNew YorkPeople

What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.

Michael Wolf

WorkNew YorkNewImportantWant

People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day.

Michael Schiavo

TimeDayPeopleLovedEvery Day

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Josh Tillman

KindGoldenBandBoredPlaying

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

Chris Jericho

HockeyNeverAlwaysPlayingBugFan

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