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

• There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• 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

• The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. And in a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Christmas

• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Moon

• Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Moon
  • Beam

• If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

  

  Li Na
  • People
  • Chinese

• I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained.

  

  Bob Latta
  • Life
  • Trust

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moon
  • See
  • Stars