Pico Iyer Quotes

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.

Joachim Frank

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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

John Boyd Orr

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With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

Melvin Van Peebles

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For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.

Robert Kurson

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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

Steve Earle

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For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

Steven Holl

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I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.

Spike Milligan

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I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

Stevie Wonder

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I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

Tom Hollander

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I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

Robert De Niro

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When I retired, I stopped playing because of my body, so much pain and injuries.

Ronaldo

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I was a paperboy first, then I worked at a movie theater. But I was a caddie at a golf club, which I didn't like. The people were so bougie and racist at times.

Mike Posner

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