Oscar Wilde Quotes

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Oscar Wilde

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• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Doing
  • Project
  • Whatever

• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Television

• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Done
  • Everything

• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • King
  • Sound

• For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Water
  • Thought
  • Greatest

• Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Record
  • Grow
  • Comfortable

• Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Model
  • Class
  • Lingerie

• Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • People
  • May
  • Easy

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Simple
  • Couple
  • Risk

• When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

  

  Faith Evans
  • Time
  • Family
  • Bad

• I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Today
  • Democracy
  • Picture

• It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • More
  • Accomplish

• I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Health
  • Body

• All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Process
  • Essence
  • Dialectical

• I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.

  

  Geoff Rickly
  • People
  • Art
  • Sleep

• I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I can deal with adversity.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Deal
  • Adversity

• Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Essence
  • Reveal