E. P. Thompson Quotes

I'll call New York for some cash.

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

Think pink. A better way of life.

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

My goal is to get on the national team. People joke that we'll be able to go to Beijing in 2008, but it's just jokes right now. Hopefully I'll be able to make it a reality.

When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection.

'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

Kill the body and the head will die.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly.

It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

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

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Why do we wear them? They're so painful.