Peter Ackroyd Quotes

There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WalkPeopleYouLookDoneSee

I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.

Jennifer Coolidge

CharacterI AmMeYouPersonKnow

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

John Salazar

SacrificePeopleCountryOilAsk

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Amelie Nothomb

GodThoughtWinnerGoddessBecome

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.

Spike Jonze

PushYouDownHardExcitedConcepts

I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

Simon Rattle

FatherMusicParentsLovedAlways

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Russell Simmons

YourselfSurround YourselfPeopleYou

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Roy Acuff

TrustWorryYouPlaceGoAhead

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

Claire Tomalin

ChildLoseDifficultThingGrown-Up

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Annie Dillard

AgeLonelinessSignSurest

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

Priscilla Chan

EducationCollegeMeGenerationYou

My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It's a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life, people don't do what I tell them to do.

Susanne Bier

LifePeopleHobbyMoviesRealTell

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

Sheila Jackson Lee

RulesOfficeAnythingDoesStaff

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