E. P. Thompson Quotes

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.

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

But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.