William Hazlitt Quotes

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

William Hazlitt

• Objects
• Spectators
• Refinement

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Money
  • Home
  • Baseball

• I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Being
  • Anything
  • Holy

• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Thanks

• I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Experiences
  • Where
  • Macho

• The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

  

  Lou Brock

• Rather than address the priorities of the middle class, the Ryan budget is an attack on American seniors, students, workers, and families - all for the sake of protecting loopholes for the wealthy and corporations that ship jobs overseas.

  

  Albio Sires
  • American

• I loved dressing Elizabeth Hurley. I thought that was wonderful. She was one of those women who is so aware of how she looks in everything.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Women
  • She

• Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

  

  Kim Ki-duk
  • Movie
  • Question
  • Opinion

• If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.

  

  Keren Ann
  • Lost
  • City
  • Explore

• The broad range of services we provide across our five businesses, together with our deep industry expertise, continues to differentiate Accenture, and we remain the partner of choice for the world's leading companies.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • World
  • Together
  • Deep

• I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

  

  Ken Thompson

• When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Firsts
  • Blogs

• Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

  

  V. R. Krishna Iyer
  • Black
  • Dog
  • Police

• There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Racism
  • Hypocrisy

• Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Objects
  • Spectators
  • Refinement