I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the inte...
PETER ACKROYD 'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic r...
PETER ACKROYD For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd...
PETER ACKROYD My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed peopl...
PETER ACKROYD I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and ...
PETER ACKROYD A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.
PETER ACKROYD It leads to the conclusion that he did not necessarily persevere in his study.
PETER ACKROYD And I think that's the spirit of Shakespeare, which somehow touched it . . . I don't know what that ...
PETER ACKROYD This book wrote itself, somehow,
PETER ACKROYD That's tittle-tattle. It was completely overblown. I'm surprised at you. Next it'll be 'I hear you d...
PETER ACKROYD [Well, we'll tackle that a bit later. Back to biography:] The only way of writing any kind of study,...
PETER ACKROYD I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.
PETER ACKROYD rather like a car coming towards you. I knew I had to do it sometime. And it seemed like a natural p...
PETER ACKROYD Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just b...
PETER ACKROYD The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melanc...
PETER ACKROYD Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing ...
PETER ACKROYD In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something ca...
PETER ACKROYD I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learn...
PETER ACKROYD I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with some...
PETER ACKROYD All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a commo...
PETER ACKROYD It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more im...
PETER ACKROYD To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that ...
PETER ACKROYD His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas...
PETER ACKROYD Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely ...
PETER ACKROYD ...for who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?
PETER ACKROYD A letter from a French cleric to Nicholas of St. Albans, written c. 1178, rehearsed what was already...
PETER ACKROYD Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's har...
PETER ACKROYD In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapola...
PETER ACKROYD The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked...
PETER ACKROYD In all outward aspects he remained patient and mild now, not caring even to speak against heretics; ...
PETER ACKROYD In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All Th...
PETER ACKROYD I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that s...
PETER ACKROYD I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and ...
PETER ACKROYD I need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-tab...
PETER ACKROYD I am the scourge of God
PETER ACKROYD Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walt...
PETER ACKROYD I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin fo...
PETER ACKROYD what think you of that, Nick, since you allwaies have your Head stuck in old Books? And I said nothi...
PETER ACKROYD Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.
PETER ACKROYD Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
PETER DANIEL Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
PETER USTINOV The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intell...
PETER USTINOV Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
PETER WASTHOLM Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri...
PETER DRUCKER Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
PETER USTINOV I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c...
PETER USTINOV A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER The computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
PETER LATHAM All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
PETER GILCREST First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS