Oscar Wilde Quotes

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Oscar Wilde

• Feeling
• Artist
• Occasion
• Portrait
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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Future
  • Funny

• When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • College
  • Thought

• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Me
  • Destruction
  • Weapons

• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Proud
  • Take
  • Lessons

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Market
  • Advertising
  • Local

• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Weapons

• I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Home
  • Think
  • Democracy

• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Just
  • Horror
  • Watch

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

  

  Oliver North
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • War

• The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Being
  • More
  • Minute

• With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Art
  • Want

• We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP.

  

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  • Business
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• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feeling
  • Artist
  • Occasion