Peter Ackroyd Quotes

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicImaginationSpiritualWorld

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

Jocko Willink

WorkTodayI AmTeamDoingOld

I don't want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women's rights and also use the law to help women.

Sonita Alizadeh

WomenKeep GoingSchoolLawLawyer

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.

Tom Stoppard

ChangeWritingThoughtYouLookSee

I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.

Molly Antopol

MeStoryAdviceLongBackMy Own

Ticket sales will get higher the day after roasts.

Lisa Lampanelli

DayWillSalesTicketGetHigher

The main criticism people have of me is, 'Why are you trying so hard? This guy's exhausting.' Yeah, I am! That's my way of trying to get love.

Josh Tillman

LoveI AmPeopleMeCriticismYou

I'm always fetishizing the French woman and French taste and style. My assistant will make fun of me because every time we're picking the direction of a collection, I say the same thing: 'I want it to be really French.'

Joseph Altuzarra

TimeStyleWomanFunMeDirection

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Joseph McCabe

NatureRivalScientistAdvances

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

Conrad Anker

PeopleClimbYouGoResourcesTakes

I'm a big fan of skilled singers. Some of my favorites are Cee-Lo Green, Donny Hathaway, James Fauntleroy, and Kim Burrell.

Seinabo Sey

GreenBigBig FanFanSingersSome

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.

Rick Smolan

GoodTechnologyTimeEvilInternet

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

Tina Brown

MomentPoliticsMindMeWriting

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