Pico Iyer Quotes

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

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• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Why
  • Remember
  • True

• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Know

• I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Change
  • Popular
  • Busy

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Way
  • End
  • Bubbles

• I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Time
  • Same
  • Broadway

• I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Never
  • See
  • Him

• While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Truth
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Good
  • Theatre

• I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Age

• Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Law
  • Wish

• Pat Robertson doesn't worship the cross. He worships the fucking dollar sign.

  

  Pat Robertson

• People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Painting

• Life is a search for yourself.

  

  Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Search

• Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Angry

• Our ancestors were an uncommonly hardy race, for the majority of the remedies would kill any of us modern weaklings, even if in robust health when they were administered.

  

  Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
  • Health
  • Kill
  • Ancestors

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

  

  Al-Waleed bin Talal
  • People

• A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

  

  Pico Iyer