E. P. Thompson Quotes

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

It only takes one person to make a change...Let it begin with you.

Never thought I'd be a bobble-head, but little did I know.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

I'm not trying to kill you, I only want to make you stronger

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.

But the past is long, and the future is short.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

I had spent over 10 years in sports, and there's such a natural crossover between entertainment and sports. It's more common to have both of those in your arsenal.

There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.