Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

Oscar Wilde

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Early

• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

  Tablo
  • Love
  • You
  • Doing

• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • High
  • Brain

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • America
  • History

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Win
  • Destiny
  • Winner

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Find
  • Paradise
  • Paths

• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Problems
  • Environmental

• If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • America
  • Violence
  • Problems

• Querida, it's alright," he said. "No one has hurt me in years." "Hey, you're supposed to be my brother," I said, trying to joke. "Brother's don't hold their sisters' hands or call them querida." Seb smiled, his hazel eyes starting to dance. "Yes, they do," he said. "This happens all the time." "Well I guess things are different in Mexico then," I said. "Because in America, no way. And I'm an American." "But you're in Mexico now," he pointed out. "Right. And you're saying here, boys holds hands with their sisters and call them sweetheart." "Oh yes. We're very friendly, we Mexicans.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Time
  • Different
  • Trying

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Make
  • Charm
  • Forbidden

• It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Error
  • Discovered