E. P. Thompson Quotes

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.

Well, " he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

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 drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ...

I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100, 000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitternessTo her who loved the rose.

The only thing you have to do in this life is die, " said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Among my stillness was a pounding heart.

I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was only a bargain between us.

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.

Most of our lives are crucified between two thieves, yesterday and tomorrow. We never live today. But the time to live is now. It is today.

CONFESSION NO. 18 Girls just want to have fun…and live to tell about it the next day.

Everything is what it is because it got that way.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.The Creators have IMMORTALITY.The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES'To award IMMORTALITY...FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits

I'm afraid of everything I don't know.

Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.

Love was a lot more complicated when you had a lot of time on your hands.

All love is immortal.

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom

A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, ” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.

Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.