Oscar Wilde Quotes
I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
Quotes to Explore
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women!
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I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
