William Hazlitt Quotes

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

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• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Running
  • Training
  • Year

• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Today
  • Car

• Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Different
  • Economy
  • Equal

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • You
  • Sexy
  • Head

• The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Game
  • Given

• With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Father

• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success
  • Being
  • Potential

• I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Would
  • Construction

• Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Pay
  • Too Much

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Think
  • Words
  • Feelings

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Kid

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Speak

• This song is the last song we're playing in America, but we'll be back.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • America
  • Song
  • Playing

• There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

  

  George Will
  • Sports
  • Competition
  • Auras

• Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, and that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Problem
  • Forget
  • Memory

• Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Form

• Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Said
  • Ends
  • Fishes

• All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Said
  • Form
  • Landscape