Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• Five wives can't all be wrong.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wrong
  • Five
  • Wives

• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Road
  • Right
  • Thing

• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Money
  • Human Rights

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Rock
  • Lyrics

• Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Kind

• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Dangerous
  • Copy

• You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Sound

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Change
  • Always
  • Thing

• To innovate is not to reform.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reform
  • Innovate

• It starts with campaign finance reform.

  

  Zack Space
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Campaign

• I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Being
  • Thing

• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Him
  • Reform

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• The landscape problem and the problem of background independence are closely linked. The latter is the only route the former has to experimental confirmation.

  

  Lee Smolin

• Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Energy
  • Nuclear
  • Perceive

• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• Love has its own qualities and one of the qualities is that love understands. Its understanding is not in words, not in thought, but it understands within. It can feel within, which is very important.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Fun
  • Dark

• It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Reform