William Hazlitt Quotes

Silence is one great art of conversation.

William Hazlitt

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• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Bad
  • Cool
  • Reason

• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • World
  • Picture
  • Club

• Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Television

• Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Running

• I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Stunts

• Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Live
  • Home
  • Trees

• There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Like
  • Down
  • Debt

• The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Greatest
  • Queen

• Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Trust

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Mind
  • Fate

• The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Night

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Shoes
  • Blue

• Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

  

  David Guetta
  • Kids

• Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • World
  • Famous

• It's the home run. The long reception in football, I guess. It's the big thing.

  

  Curtis Strange
  • Football
  • Run
  • Reception

• I'm a huge fan, and I didn't grow up with it, I didn't grow up reading 'X-Men' comics. I became a huge fan; I had somebody in my company who gave me the biographies of all the characters. I read Logan's first and was like, 'What a great, tragic character.' I just loved him.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

  

  Luke Evans
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Looks
  • Wanted
  • Conversation

• If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.

  

  Winthrop W. Aldrich
  • People
  • Christian
  • Democracy

• Silence is one great art of conversation.

  

  William Hazlitt