Oscar Wilde Quotes
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power -
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson -
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert -
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter -
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
Octavia Spencer -
It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
Adam Peaty
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
Adam Jones -
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
T. B. Joshua -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
Maggie Smith -
Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
Nancy Kress -
What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
Cara Delevingne
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
Oliver Tambo -
A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
Magnus Scheving -
I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma -
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
Jack Horner
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There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.
Mark Walport -
It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.
Sarah Dessen -
You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.
Diego Costa -
I can go days without meaningful human interaction.
Kristin Gore -
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.
Charlie Kaufman -
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde