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Peter Ackroyd Quotes

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: October 5, 1949

Topics

People House Buy Seem Who Houses

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

Day Fun Homeless Writing You Mean

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.

Sloane Stephens

Best Play Want Tennis Grand

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.

Simon Conway Morris

Eye Camera You Find Know Group

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

Women Government Hypocrite Think Say

I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side.

Looking You Know Kind Will Way

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

Business Best Management Financial

Everybody complaining about their average and all that, but I wanted be in there where I can help my team no matter what situation. And a lot of days, I didn't have it.

Team Help Situation I Can Matter

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

Minoru Yamasaki

Building Better Buildings Find Way

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Wind Right Harbor Knows He

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

Truth People Looking Be Different

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

Love Teacher Great Excitement Her

From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.

Government Child Reach Plan Security

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