William Hazlitt Quotes

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

William Hazlitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImaginationManBelieveDevilStone

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Jimmy Wales

KnowledgeWorldFreeDoingPerson

New York is the best food city in the world.

Joe Bastianich

FoodBestNew YorkCityWorldNew

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

John Maeda

GoodDesignYouLookCreatePage

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

Jean Moulin

MoreDifficultiesTaskBecoming

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

Amitava Kumar

GoodArtYouLookNewWay

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

Stephen Chow

DogEyesCuteFaceYearsBig

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

Siobhan Davies

LifeWorkGoodDanceMomentsYear

I have started using the expression 'compassionate activism': It's about keeping my heart open so that I can understand the point of view of the other person.

Tracee Ellis Ross

HeartViewPoint Of ViewI CanOpen

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

Ronan Farrow

LifeWorkGovernmentMindMeLegal

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

ReligionFactsYouTroubleTrueWay

Does the draft really matter? At the end of the day, at the end of your career, at the end of time, does it really matter?

Jon Gruden

TimeDayEnd Of The DayEndCareer

There is really nothing like doing a play in New York.

Jonathan Groff

New YorkDoingPlayNewNothing

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