E. P. Thompson Quotes

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him.

In order to take care of our ocean, we need to be knowledgeable.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

We and the beasts are kin.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

Getting bored is not allowed.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution