Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

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• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Opportunity
  • More
  • Will

• There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • People
  • Want
  • Evil

• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands. You'd love them to come to every big dance and every big game, but sometimes that's not possible.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World

• I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Up
  • Environment

• America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • America

• To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

  

  Albert Gubay
  • God
  • Money
  • Promise

• I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

  

  Brad Gilbert
  • Time
  • Great
  • Remember

• I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • People
  • America
  • Attention

• Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

  

  James Gray
  • Romantic

• I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

  

  Anne Robinson
  • Good
  • Single

• I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

  

  Lauren Myracle
  • People

• I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Friends

• To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • People
  • Dream

• For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • She
  • Fun
  • Small

• There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.

  

  Els Borst
  • Nice

• People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • People

• micheal sighed and closed his eyes for a moment'i'm not sure that was a good idea claire:it will be if you go see her tonight and tell her well watever oh but watch out shes gone all buffy with the stakes and things

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Idea

• It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Creatures
  • Prayers
  • Blessings Of God

• Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

  

  Howard Duane Allman The Allman Brothers Band
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Records

• When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Emphasizes