Terry Eagleton Quotes
Sad Quotes by Terry Eagleton

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at
the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
- Terry Eagleton

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but
that it is institutional.
- Terry Eagleton

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
- Scott Turow

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
- Catharine MacKinnon

There's this expression called postmodernism,
which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern,
which now no longer means anything.
- Twyla Tharp

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern.
Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its
end but in the nascent state,
and this state is constant.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Postmodernism is an academic theory,
originating in academia with an academic elite,
not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
- Catharine MacKinnon

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective,
and recognizes only difference, never inequality,
only fragments, never conflict.
- Elizabeth Wilson

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural
defense for male violence -
a defense for it wherever it is,
which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
- Catharine MacKinnon

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism,
as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
- Andrew Eldritch

In Modernism, reality used to validate media.
In Postmodernism, the media validate reality.
If you don't believe this, just think how many times
you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
- Brad Holland

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart...
forgiveness saves the expense of anger,
the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
- Hannah More

Humor is a serious thing.
I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources,
which must be preserved at all cost.
- James Thurber

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us,
we'd all be millionaires.
- Abigail Van Buren

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost
my generation to preserve your freedom.
I hope you will make good use of it.
- John Quincy Adams

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple:
providing space at the right cost.
- Harry von Zell

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections
are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
- Gore Vidal

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe.
High-speed Internet connections and low-cost,
skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
- Bob Taft

This film cost $31 million.
With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
- Clint Eastwood

We approach people the same way we approach our cars.
We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask,
What's wrong with him, how much will it cost,
and when can I pick him up?
- James Hillman

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology,
but they find the cost prohibitive.
- Nathan Deal

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make
this transition to renewable energy.
- Al Gore

The cost of a thing is the amount
of what I will call life
which is required to be exchanged for it,
immediately or in the long run.
- Henry David Thoreau

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's,
but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes
a huge bite out of these salaries.
- Pola Negri

One of the things that we can say with confidence is
that we will have much lighter,
much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight,
and the cost of rockets.
- Ralph Merkle

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
- Benjamin Tucker

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
- Saint Ignatius

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money.
Look for low- and no-cost options.
They can be surprisingly effective.
- Donald Rumsfeld

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost.
Wow.
The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
- John Guare

Profits might also increase, because improvements might
take place in agriculture,
or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment
the produce with the same cost of production.
- David Ricardo

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to
take some of the increased benefit and use that to
alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
- Tim Bishop

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five
cents a day it cost to swim.
I counted wet towels.
As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
- Esther Williams

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies,
the advertising and promotion of a movie,
the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
- Richard Attenborough

Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components,
what we call base rates and the cost of living factor
which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.
- Leonard Woodcock

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell
car on the road in Japan.
It is subsidized from within the corporation because
they are still at a high cost.
- Maurice Strong

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
- W. E. B. Du Bois

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -
but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
- Judith Viorst

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything.
A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top,
and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
- John Barrow

Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel.
A significant number go on aliyah.
We are proud of our Israel programs,
which come at a considerable cost to the university.
- Norman Lamm

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost
have already written an epitaph of infamy,
for there is no cause and no person that they will
not betray to stay alive.
- Sidney Hook

You will now have a starting place and a destination,
and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there.
You will be going someplace.
- H. Stanley Judd

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not.
The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money,
and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
- Sam Mendes

My mother was a good mistress to her servants,
taking care of them in their sicknesses,
not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.
- Margaret Cavendish

All communities have a right to clean water.
The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the
burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.
- John Salazar

We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.
- Maria Cantwell

We are afraid to face the hard questions.
We are willing to tackle drugs, crime,
and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
- J. Irwin Miller

San Francisco businesses face many challenges,
including high rents, regulatory burdens,
and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance
and employee health plans.
- Gavin Newsom

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain,
at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
- Thorstein Veblen

Good words are worth much, and cost little.
- George Herbert

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film.
It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
- Donnie Wahlberg

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year,
starting in 2010.
- Bjorn Lomborg

My own experience in the third world was that even
if people started to make more money,
the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
- David Korten

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly
with the labour cost of producing them.
- Charles E. Wilson

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits.
It used to cost me money to be in the band.
I think we got paid the last gig we ever did.
After that, we had to work to support our families.
- Jerry Only

I love iconoclasts.
I love individuals.
I love people that are true to themselves,
whatever the cost.
- Tim Robbins

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.
- Ben Edwards

Every retailer, when they price their goods,
looks at their total cost overall.
When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
- Dan Butler

I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else.
There's no question that we have an obligation to help
the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.
- Saxby Chambliss

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can,
regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful
corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.
- John Jay Hooker

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq,
whatever the strategy, cost and risks,
is certain to divert us for some indefinite period
from our war on terrorism.
- Brent Scowcroft

Joy, has no cost.
- Marianne Williamson

And that's another reason to make this movie:
We can put plays on film now,
at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an
audience they would never have reached otherwise.
- Dustin Hoffman

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more
than $40 million to be made these days.
- Neil Jordan

The product is the delivery of the largest number of
people at the least cost.
- George Gerbner

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Albert Camus

I did some products for the Apple II,
most notably the first small low cost thermal printer,
the Silent Type.
- Andy Hertzfeld