William Hazlitt Quotes

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

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• To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Scary

• There will be an answer. Let it be.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Answers

• All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Lonely
  • Loneliness

• They had two really good teams those two years, but they've got a really good team this year. I'm hoping upstate this time they can really make a difference.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Team

• The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Work
  • Lives
  • Tragic

• I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Drive

• O Lord...

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Past
  • Wisdom
  • Islamic

• You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Knows

• I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Light

• Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

  

  J. Allen Boone
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Understanding

• Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

  

  Ian_Jack
  • Newspapers
  • Columns
  • Acropolis

• Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.

  

  Gabriel Faure
  • Music
  • Black
  • Mistake

• At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • History
  • True

• The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

  

  Don McLean
  • High
  • Fall
  • Musical

• My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Dad

• …and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Men
  • Wonder
  • Littles

• A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Littles
  • Movement
  • Members

• We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

  

  William Hazlitt
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