Peter Ackroyd Quotes

In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SongBelieveKnowWantOldPretend

Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.

Jimmy Butler

WinThinkLearnYouKnowYoung

I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.

Angela Ahrendts

ChangeLiveI Have LearnedListen

People worry that gas prices are high and how they are affecting their pocket book. But they want to know about renewable energy. People are really starting to question things, and that's made people look to the future in a positive way.

Michael Franti

PositiveFuturePeopleBookEnergy

Bringing out service staff on to the dining floor does change the atmosphere.

Steve Easterbrook

ChangeServiceDiningOutFloor

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Robert Casey

WomenChildrenPovertyAbortionMore

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

LeadWeightOur

My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it.

Mike Birbiglia

MotherCarTimeAngryMeCare

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Michael Savage

LifeFailureTodayTomorrowYou

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

Michael Welch

BuildingBostonWithinHighGone

Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.

Lukas Rosol

Wake UpI CanSometimesUpBeat

I'm constantly unsatisfied with any situation, which is both good and bad, because never being fully happy drives me to better every day... but I don't enjoy the things that I do even when I do them great.

Dolph Ziggler

GoodGreatDayHappyMeBetter

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

David Steinberg

PersistenceKindNotesPaidOff

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