Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

Terry Eagleton

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• You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Why
  • Dark
  • Comfort

• Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Good
  • She
  • Same

• You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Kind
  • Need
  • Motorcycle

• I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Age
  • Media

• If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Done
  • You
  • Doubt

• Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Different
  • Long
  • Prayer

• I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Stronger
  • Redhead

• Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Nature
  • Game
  • Bold

• We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.

  

  Eknath Easwaran
  • Joy

• And I will love you, baby - Always

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Baby

• Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Lies

• In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • Police

• I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Husband
  • Gold

• Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I enjoy directing and acting as well. But the bottom line for me is not prestige and power. It's about having an exciting, creative life.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Life
  • Power

• I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Health

• America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Great
  • America

• There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Book
  • Reading

• All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Good
  • Important
  • Seductive

• I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Time
  • White House

• [Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Advance
  • Completed
  • Single Step

• I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Stupid
  • Fans
  • Hours

• I had to stay off Twitter for a little bit, and I had to not read the comments or look at my at mentions because I was getting a lot of nasty comments. At the end of the day, it does get to you, and it does make me sad.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Sad
  • Nasty
  • Twitter

• It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

  

  Terry Eagleton