Pico Iyer Quotes

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TodayGreatResponsibilityMeThink

Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

Stephen Marley

LifePositiveMusicLightMeYou

I'm from Cleveland. I love this place. I'm never going to leave.

Stipe Miocic

LovePlaceNeverLeaveGoingI Love

I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

ReligionPeopleThinkMy OwnOwn

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

Tony Fadell

WaterConstructionBuildingEnergy

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Rollo May

IdentityPersonalWho Am IQuestion

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

Roz Chast

HateTogetherParentsMeDoingBorn

I want people to know me for following my dreams.

Luke James

DreamsPeopleMeKnowWant

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

Janine Turner

GreatColorNowHerdThroughout

My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.

Deborah Moggach

PoetryHouseBathBathroomTopRoom

Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat.

David Shields

NostalgiaBubbleMoreFictionOnly

I think as long as acting feels fulfilling and continues to feel fulfilling, it's worth it to me.

Cole Sprouse

MeThinkFeelLongWorthActing

How do I play the princess thing? I don't, really. I don't like talking about it much and find it annoying when people say things like, 'Oh, you're the princess.' One of my best friends jokingly says, 'Hi, Princess,' and I say, 'Shut up.' It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.

Princess Eugenie of York

BestPeopleMeWorldTalkingYou

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