Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

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• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• I don't think what I look like is relevant.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Like
  • Look

• I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

• I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Actor

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • House
  • Living
  • Loved

• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • See
  • Blind

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Time
  • Science
  • Trust

• 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.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Hope
  • Reason
  • Right

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

  

  Ovid
  • Where
  • Promises
  • Millionaire

• 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.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • She
  • America
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Me
  • Reminds
  • Workaholic

• For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • People

• There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Rules

• When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Time
  • College
  • Literature

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.

  

  William Watson
  • Honor
  • Thee

• It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

  

  Terry Eagleton
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