Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

Terry Eagleton

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• Goal
• Achieve
• Deeds
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• Indigo

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• I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Game

• Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Criticism
  • Will
  • Merit

• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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  • Day
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• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
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• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Politics
  • Place

• We are always getting ready to live but never living.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Live
  • Living
  • Ready

• I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Enjoy

• I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Character
  • Interesting

• It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Moment
  • I Can
  • Go

• Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Serious
  • Romantic

• I grew up on theater, and honestly, I'm trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

• I'm never really happy with anything I do.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Happy

• The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God

• We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

  

  Daniel Pauly
  • World
  • Remember

• I feel like we haven't dealt with the ghosts of America's past, and the way to deal with it is to confront it, so every time people see me, I want them to be reminded and to confront that ghost.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• I just want to tell black stories.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Black

• Weekends are about replenishment and rejuvenation. Time in Wales would definitely be part of my ideal weekend, at my own hotel, set in 72 acres of absolute gorgeousness. I can already feel the air working its magic, with the sea breeze drifting over us.

  

  Neil Morrissey
  • Time
  • Air
  • Magic

• Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.

  

  Paul Gauguin

• The approaches to bridges are at the greatest risk of scouring from the storm surge. The National Guard is going to take a Hummer with satellite communications and drive all the way down to Mile Marker 0. They're just waiting for the winds to start dropping.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Risk
  • Storm
  • Bridges

• Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • People
  • Why
  • Evil

• I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

  

  Michael Smith
  • Financial
  • Committee
  • Cambridge

• People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Evil
  • Goal
  • Achieve