Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.

Terry Eagleton

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• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Wife
  • Serious
  • Divorce

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Trump

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Children
  • Best

• While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • Story
  • Someone

• When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Say
  • Walk

• Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Run

• My friends are my family.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Family
  • Friends

• What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.

  

  Kate Jenkinson
  • Way
  • Comedy
  • Style

• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Lying

• There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • Way
  • Feel

• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Men

• Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • People
  • Life
  • Food

• When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Writing
  • Sex

• I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • People
  • Help

• Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Hair

• It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.

  

  Pete Stark
  • Time
  • Support

• Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Power
  • Girl
  • Equal

• I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Same
  • View

• We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Style
  • Heirs

• It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • World
  • Culture
  • Fear

• Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • High
  • Culture
  • Powerful

• We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Culture
  • Mean
  • Individual