Oscar Wilde Quotes

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

Oscar Wilde

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Art
  • Think

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Like

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Soldiers

• I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Art
  • Man
  • Evil

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• 'The Karate Kid' was just lightning in a bottle. The second movie is a very worthy sequel, because you got to explore the Okinawan culture and learned about Miyagi's life. The third, as is always the case, was made because the second one made a lot of money.

  

  Martin Kove
  • Life
  • Money
  • Movie

• If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds simpler than it is, but you can't allow yourself to be disrespected. You have to be a strong girl.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Girl

• Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Future

• Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Determination
  • System
  • States

• What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Normal