Pico Iyer Quotes
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.Pico Iyer
Quotes to Explore
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
Dan Webster
-
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 -
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 -
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
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 -
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
Patrick O'Brian -
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
Quintilian
-
I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
Harold Prince -
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 -
Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.
Warren Spector -
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 -
Take an Indian home to lunch.
Jim Morrison The Doors
-
We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism.
Margaret Thatcher -
God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
We’re such contrary creatures
David Malouf -
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
Pico Iyer