E. P. Thompson Quotes

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

Piracy is our only option.

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

It's not just how hard you try, it's how well you will succeed from trying hard.

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good.

Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep.

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.