William Hazlitt Quotes
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
Quotes to Explore
-
I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
-
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
-
I'm cranky.
-
Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
-
When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
-
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
-
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
-
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
-
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
-
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
-
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
-
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
-
I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
-
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
-
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
-
Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
-
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
-
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
-
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
-
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.
-
When Calista Flockhart read for 'Ally McBeal', I saw this perfect chemistry between the words on the page and the person who would embody that character.
-
I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.
-
When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
-
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
