Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.

Terry Eagleton

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• The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Combination
  • Potatoes

• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Science
  • Practice

• Self-doubt kills talent.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Self-Doubt

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Control
  • I Can
  • Go

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Way
  • Flowers
  • Bee

• These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

  

  Imran Khan
  • You
  • Mainstream
  • Pakistan

• I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Sell

• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Happy
  • Father

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Relationship

• An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • High
  • Running
  • Practice

• I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Want
  • Season
  • Equal

• I really like cable T.V.

  

  Sally Field
  • Like
  • Really
  • Cable

• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Body
  • Workout
  • Friday

• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Author

• I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• Wouldn't it have been weird to go to high school with the Pope? You know, somebody did, someone's sitting at home, watching TV in Poland, they see the Pope, they think, "That guy was a jerk! He was so mean to me and now he's Pope? I got a swirly from the Pope!"

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • School
  • Home
  • Funny

• I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • School
  • Running

• I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • School
  • Study
  • Facts