Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
Quotes to Explore
-
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
-
I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
-
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
-
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
-
My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
-
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
-
The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
-
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
-
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
-
Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
-
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
-
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
-
For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
-
I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
-
I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
-
There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
-
Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
-
I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
-
When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
-
The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
-
The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.
-
Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.
-
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
-
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
