William Hazlitt Quotes

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

William Hazlitt

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• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Road
  • Dead
  • Lawyer

• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • She
  • Cool
  • Hair

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Best

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Country
  • Money
  • Support

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Death
  • Always
  • Sword

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Want
  • Change
  • Same

• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Amazing
  • Brilliant

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • May

• Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman.

  

  Barry Long
  • Energy
  • Value
  • Woman

• My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

  

  Rei Kawakubo
  • Freedom
  • Energy
  • Spirit

• I used to be a Geico Caveman for live events. I was a corporate mascot. It was the silliest job. It was actually awesome and fun, but it was retarded.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Live
  • Job
  • Fun

• I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Action

• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Energy
  • Pride
  • Overcoming