Oscar Wilde Quotes

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Oscar Wilde

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• Shadows
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• When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Fantastic

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic
  • Fabulous

• I don't like laziness or cutting corners.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Like
  • Cutting
  • Corners

• I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Great
  • Laugh
  • Favorite

• Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Why
  • Think
  • Young

• I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Life
  • Person
  • Fantastic

• And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Soul
  • Sickness
  • Bright

• Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Live
  • Shadows

• You know, I'm really not that bright.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Know
  • Bright

• 'I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Different
  • Job
  • Fantastic

• The enemy is radical Islam. You can't get around it. And not only will I name the enemy, I will do whatever it takes to defend America from these haters of mankind.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Enemy
  • Haters

• When I first came to Hollywood, I couldn't afford a telephone.

  

  Katharine Ross

• I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Political

• I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Long

• Jill Soloway is a friend of mine. She does 'Transparent,' and she's amazingly funny and brilliant and bright. And I love her show.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Show

• Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Friends
  • Beautiful
  • Cool

• Pretty much every show that comes on, I'll try to watch at least one episode of it. For me, there are three different levels. I watch the first episode, and if I love it, I'm lockin' it in for the rest of the season. If I'm not too sure about it, I will maybe tune in the next week. It it's just terrible, then I'm done.

  

  Dule Hill
  • Different
  • Done
  • Pretty

• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Rock

• It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Dead
  • Brush
  • Draftmanship

• The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fantastic
  • Shadows
  • Bright