William Hazlitt Quotes

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

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• The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Weather

• The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Scripture

• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Work
  • Love
  • Genius

• I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Just

• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Bad
  • Laws
  • Tyranny

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• 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

• Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • First
  • Possible
  • Speaking

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Loser

• A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Individual
  • Industry

• To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Me
  • Human
  • Existence

• If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • America
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Back

• Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Men
  • Art

• I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Garden
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Guilty

• Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

  

  Amy Hempel
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Night
  • Inspiration
  • Homework

• I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Real
  • School
  • Night

• Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Done
  • History

• Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Home
  • Night
  • Rapture