William Hazlitt Quotes

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

William Hazlitt

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• I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • American
  • First

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Good
  • Hearing

• I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Friends
  • Ending

• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Goal
  • Information

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • World
  • Energy
  • Market

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Enjoy

• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Always

• Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Service
  • Greatest

• I still do love monsters. And when I was a kid, they were really important to me. I couldn't wait for Saturday night.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Important
  • Night
  • Saturday

• No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Bad

• Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Life
  • Style
  • Path

• Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.

  

  Peter Higgs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Journey