E. P. Thompson Quotes

It never got weird enough for me.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

It's very important, who has the most delegates. The superdelegates should not be the ones making the decision.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

The steady state of disks is full.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.

I try to be the best I can be at what I can do, and that’s playing hard & rebounding.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

There is no story unless you've written it.

I didn't know Johnny Depp could act until he played me.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

I’m not trying to hurt you; I’m trying to make you better.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

Good peo­ple drink good beer. Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer. Think about it.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

My worst quality is impatience.

Without the ice, the earth will fall

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.