Oscar Wilde Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
-
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
-
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
-
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
-
I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
-
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
-
I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
-
I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
-
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
-
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
-
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
-
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
-
Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
-
Your man Flavor Flav is living!
-
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
-
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
-
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
-
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
-
If you want a man that respects the way you think then show more mind than ass.
-
What man is, only history tells.
-
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.
-
The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. They affect earning potential, with implications throughout a person's life.
-
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
-
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
