Quotes About Peckham

#1. And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic.

Mike Carey

#2. It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms.

Tinie Tempah

#4. Some attempts at translating from one language into another one can be pretty funny if the translators don't know what they're doing.

Lori Peckham

#5. The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.

Renzo Piano

#8. Through working with amazing people, the bar is always raised to do your own best work. I want to be a part of unique stories that are smart, heartfelt, funny and sad, and have a general sense of good quality.

Ari Graynor

#9. Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

John Cowper Powys

#10. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Albert Camus

#11. I realized how lucky I was to have been raised here in these southern woods among poachers and storytellers.

Tom Franklin

#12. There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

David Antin

#13. This can't be happening. This can't be possible. How is this possible?

Colleen Hoover

#14. Friday: The day after Thursday and before Saturday according to Rebecca Black. Also the most annoying day of the week now.

Aaron Peckham

#15. If hardwork is your wweapon then sucess is your slave.

Sai Prathap

#16. If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

Chris Crutcher

#17. It must be recognized that an ideology is always out of phase with the situation in which it is employed, for an ideology has always emerged as a response to a preceding situation, the attributes of which are different from the current situation.

Morse Peckham

#18. Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

E. O. Wilson

#19. Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

Martin McDonagh