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

• 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

• In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

  

  Amanda Schull
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dance

• 'Winnie The Witch' transgresses all cultural boundaries. Amusingly, there have been attempts to deconstruct the meaning of the books - that Winnie represents society and Wilbur the disabled - but I think it's just a great story.

  

  Korky Paul
  • Great
  • Society
  • Witch

• The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Life
  • Confined
  • Examined

• Perhaps the greatest challenge for the resolution of a systemic global bank is the possibility that public or private actors in different countries might take local actions that would cause the overall resolution to spin out of control.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Different
  • Control
  • Challenge

• There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Religion
  • Deduction
  • Shutters

• 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