William Hazlitt Quotes

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

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• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
  • Control
  • Discipline
  • Teach

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • You
  • Very
  • Audition

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Back
  • Prison
  • Buy

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mistake
  • Voice
  • Easy

• For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Taken

• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Time
  • Week
  • Doctor

• If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Today
  • Taken

• If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

  

  Marc Chagall
  • May
  • Painting

• No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

  

  Elizabeth Berg

• The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Freedom

• As Attorney General of Alabama, I have never hesitated to stand up to the EPA before when it was wrong.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Up

• [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Long
  • Character
  • Interesting

• No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Imagination
  • Forces
  • Avail

• We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Wells
  • Cease