Peter Ackroyd Quotes

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've heard all the coaches complaining about the new CBA rules limiting padded practice. I don't like the reduction to just 15 padded practices during the season. When I coached, we always practiced in pads; and three days a week.

Jimmy Johnson

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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

Jeremy Lin

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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

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Try your hardest to be confident in who you are. You are enough - you are beautiful.

Meagan Tandy

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Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

Maury Yeston

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Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.

Matt Mullenweg

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Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Stewart Alsop

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Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Rush Limbaugh

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The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.

Mike Crapo

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I've never not owned a stick shift. There's something about manual transmissions that I really appreciate and enjoy. And besides that, I like driving; I enjoy driving.

Dominick Cruz

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The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

Colm Toibin

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