William Hazlitt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
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I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
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You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
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The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
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You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
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I like to be in control of my body. Also, I love getting into character and exploring a different aspect of who I am.
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It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
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Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs.
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Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
