Pico Iyer Quotes

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

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• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • School
  • She
  • Government

• The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Me
  • Best
  • Advice

• When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Art
  • Always

• I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Always
  • Fan
  • Been

• Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • High
  • Quality

• I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Understanding
  • Communication
  • Security

• The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Power
  • Plant

• It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Work
  • Important
  • New

• A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Done
  • Fame
  • Manager

• If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Cool

• Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Years

• Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Brand
  • Ice

• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• The purpose of your life is Joy.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Purpose

• I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Nice
  • Cool
  • Beach

• Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Hunt

• The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Helping

• I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

  

  Pico Iyer