Oscar Wilde Quotes

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Way
  • Me

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Age
  • Dress
  • Appropriate

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Success

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Love
  • Beach

• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Think
  • First

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Rejection
  • Street
  • Editors

• I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • She
  • Education
  • Daughter

• I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Why
  • Popular

• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Key
  • Life Is A

• My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me 'Goodnight Moon.' From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I like to write things that are a soundtrack to my life so if I am experiencing that moment, I want to portray what would be playing in the background.

  

  Amber Mark
  • Life
  • Write
  • Soundtrack

• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Family
  • Fathers