Oscar Wilde Quotes

He wants to enslave you. I shudder at the thought of being free.

Oscar Wilde

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• Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Justice
  • Never
  • Given

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Black
  • Simple

• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • New
  • Research

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Community
  • Powerful

• During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Information
  • Discovery

• CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Real
  • Car
  • Doing

• Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Stop
  • Water
  • Dog

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Space

• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Respect
  • Tennis
  • Through

• No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Death
  • Man
  • Black

• Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Open-minded

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography

• I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Live
  • Funny

• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Hero

• America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

  

  Patti Davis
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Brother

• When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

  

  Bob Beamon

• The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Dark
  • Things

• He wants to enslave you. I shudder at the thought of being free.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Free
  • Thought
  • Shudder