William Hazlitt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
-
I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
-
In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
-
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
-
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
-
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
-
When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
-
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
-
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
-
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
-
Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
-
There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
-
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
-
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
-
I know what poverty is.
-
When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.
-
I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
-
I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
-
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
-
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
-
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
