Peter Ackroyd Quotes

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeHistoryMy LifeImportantThree

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Jim Leach

GreatShoesYourselfLearnYouRead

I think rage is so ugly.

Jennifer Aniston

UglyThinkRageI Think

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

John F. Kerry

AmericaPresidentLeadLikeAgain

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

WarPossibleHumanEnemiesLarge

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

Stellan Skarsgard

YouSellingNowPopcornHardOut

I listen to a lot of old-school worship music.

Sonny Sandoval

MusicListenWorshipLot

There are many singers who have got an exceptional talent, but spend their lives singing in local trains or hotels. Does the country even know who they are? Music in India is restricted only to Bollywood. Whoever manages to make a mark there is remembered. The ones who fail to reach and make it big there are forgotten.

Sonu Nigam

MusicTalentSingingReachIndia

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Rita Ora

LoveHappyMomHairBlondeBeing

My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

LawCreditResumeMembershipHarvard

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

Michael Moore

WomenBeginningWarPeopleBelieve

The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

Conrad Black

GentleUnpredictableNaturalAgainst

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Thomas Jefferson

BestPeopleFreeSecurityMeanWho

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