Paraphrase Quote by Peter Ackroyd Download Open image “I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.” — Peter Ackroyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Paraphrase
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.” — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
“He offered a better paraphrase one day when I was complaining about an entry: “Words are stubborn little fuckers.” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“I now know from voracious reading and tireless research that most of my favorite quotes are just paraphrases from ancient philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle,… — Jeff Burden Copy Share Image
“I was doing pretty well—I’d published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran,… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
“And you must be indulgent with the answer, which will perhaps often leave you empty-handed; for ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without the recognition of death; we were too young to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“dyer. (Looking at him scornfully) So that is why Wits swarm like Egypt's Frogs. If I were a Writer now, I would wish to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly… — Walter Koenig Copy Share Image
The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, — George Herbert Copy Share Image
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image