AtomicQuote

Peter Ackroyd Quote

He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

Peter Ackroyd

He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

Related Quotes

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions a...

Debbie Ford

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions a...

Tags: fear, dark, human

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everyb...

Aristotle

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everyb...

Tags: anger, power, time, purpose

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Tags: anger, shame, whatever, ends

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

Tags: accomplishments, amazom, aspiration, be different, book, business, chiyson, entrepreneurship, greater glory, greatness

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

Flannery O'Connor

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

Tags: christianity, grace, prayer

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is heali...

C. JoyBell C.

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is heali...

Tags: ancient, flight, flying, human race, humanity, imperfection, inspirational, inspirational life, inspiring, journey

When you get to the end of the rainbow, you haven't even started yet.

Anthony T.Hincks

When you get to the end of the rainbow, you haven't even started yet.

Tags: color, end of the rainbow, god, life, love, philosophy, rainbow, started

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

Asa Don Brown

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

Tags: counsel, counsellor, counselor, humanity, joy, kindness, love, peace, psychological, psychology

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Tags: alone, good, knowledge, wisdom, life, misattributed audrey hepburn, woman

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Tags: ad, adage, adages, advert, advertiser, advertisers, advertising, advertising space, advertising spaces, adverts
About Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.