Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Terry Eagleton

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • You
  • Stop

• Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • King
  • Leader
  • Values

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Care
  • Because

• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • House
  • Hand
  • Like

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Economy
  • Sustainability

• I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.

  

  Verite
  • Small
  • Lost
  • Day

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Perception

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

  

  Jessica Savitch

• When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

  

  Carole King
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Lost

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Success
  • Trouble
  • Adventure

• Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

  

  Euripides
  • Friendship
  • Trouble
  • Show

• Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Worship
  • Capitalism
  • Boundaries

• I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Goal
  • Movies
  • Making

• The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Great
  • Society
  • Church

• You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Trouble
  • Talking
  • Capitalism