William Hazlitt Quotes

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

Topics

NaturePerfectHeavenSatisfyJoys

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Jim Bishop

AgeTomorrowLooksPossibleFriendly

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

Jerry Costello

Pearl HarborAttackHarborOurFleet

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

Maxine Peake

GreatPlayDesperateNoneFemale

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

Robert McKee

LifeBalanceTalkingRealizeOut

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Meshell Ndegeocello

TryingMonkeyUnderstandMindsNever

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

Spike Lee

StoryPiecesLinesPlotCharacters

Putting is so difficult, so universally vexing, that the best the pros can do is tell us how to miss. 'Miss it on the pro side,' they say, meaning miss it above the hole. I can't even do that consistently. I miss it on the pro side. I miss it on the amateur side. I miss it on both sides of the clown's mouth.

Steve Rushin

BestMeaningMouthSayDifficult

I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.

Ruth Rendell

GoodHeartPeopleWritingShortYou

'The Hummingbird's Daughter' took 20 years to write.

Luis Alberto Urrea

DaughterWriteYearsTook

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

Lois Lowry

PowerWordsRacismWorldSociety

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

Claire McCaskill

PlayNiceMoviesSeemWhereWell

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Bruce Springsteen

MusicTimeAlwaysKindsDifferent

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