William Hazlitt Quotes

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

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• A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Good
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Job
  • Fun

• Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.

  

  Watt Key
  • Good
  • Know
  • Day

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Remember
  • Tree

• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Know
  • Color
  • Voice

• Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Literature

• I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through

• If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Children
  • Alive
  • Complain

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Kind
  • Look
  • Fantasy

• I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • God
  • Media

• I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Doing
  • Most
  • Admire

• I like to improvise.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Like
  • Improvise

• It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Body
  • Confusion

• A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"

  

  Brian Regan
  • People
  • Real
  • Comedy

• When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Real
  • Wife
  • Baby

• I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • May
  • Experience

• That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Judge
  • Succeed
  • Wise Man

• Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Pride
  • Looks
  • Fame