Terry Eagleton Wuthering Heights Quotes & Sayings

The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it. — Bruce Lee

At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies. — Rupert Murdoch

One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code. — Cay S. Horstmann

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. — John Stuart Mill

It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed. — Thomas C. Mann

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next. — Edmund Gibson

I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't. — Steven Soderbergh

The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps. — Mary Shelley

As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder. — Paul E. Miller

They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory. — August Wilhelm Von Hofmann

We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. This is an uncomfortable notion which I have gradually come to accept by reading what other survivors have written, including myself, when I re-read my writings after a lapse of years. We, the survivors, are not only a tiny but also an anomalous minority. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless. — Primo Levi