William Hazlitt Quotes

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • More
  • Questioning

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Existence
  • Lives
  • Economics

• The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do. Nobody says, 'Chill out, man. That's out of line.'

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • People
  • Man
  • Perspective

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Depression

• It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Funny
  • Clean

• It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Life
  • Money
  • High

• Reality-including one’s own-is divine, not to be defied but honored.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Reality

• When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.

  

  Douglas Kirkland
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Paradise

• To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Speak