Oscar Wilde Quotes

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Oscar Wilde

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• I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • See
  • Back
  • Step

• Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Sand

• I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • See
  • Blind
  • I Can

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • God
  • Doing
  • See

• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
  • Kids
  • See

• And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Hand
  • Government
  • See

• What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Want
  • See

• Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Why
  • Know
  • Theatre

• A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Best
  • Moon
  • Successful

• My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Love
  • Cool
  • Winter

• Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • See
  • Gymnastics

• I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Alone
  • Taken
  • Picture

• We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Singing
  • See

• When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets – perhaps about 30% of them are planet – builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Stars
  • Form
  • Planets

• In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Good
  • Different
  • Bad

• When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

  

  William Rose Benet
  • Friendship
  • Self
  • Eternity

• The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Circumstances

• I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moon
  • See
  • Stars