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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I like to mix it up, but I do like a lot of '60s fashion. But I like to make it a bit more edgier, sometimes a bit more rockier, sometimes a bit more classic.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Up
  • Fashion

• Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.

  

  Doug Liman
  • May
  • Power
  • Hero

• In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • World
  • Live
  • Age

• I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• 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

• You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Power
  • High
  • Change

• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Age

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

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Emphasizes