Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

Oscar Wilde

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• Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Way
  • Powerful
  • Choir

• But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Help

• That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Proud

• The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

  

  James Hillman
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

  

  Brian Boitano
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • People
  • Work

• I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Time
  • Long

• The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Color
  • Lies

• It's important to remember to pinch yourself to remind you where you came from and how lucky you are.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Important
  • Remember

• In my experience, young people fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act and to prevent the deportation of those who are eligible are among the most committed and fearless advocates for change in this country.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • People
  • Country
  • Experience

• You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• I've been around all kinds of people, defense attorneys, working with cops, working with politicians, both sides of the aisle, including Democrats as former first lady of San Francisco, and the Republicans, too, so I've had a front row seat to lots of things in life.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • People
  • Life

• Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.

  

  John Rampton
  • People
  • Why
  • Attention

• There is no 'off' being John Cena: it's always on. In a way, I think that has helped me, because over the years I have been able to be humble. I have been able to be humiliated in front of the WWE universe in a good way.

  

  John Cena
  • Good
  • Universe
  • Humble

• I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.

  

  Geoff Stults
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Comedy

• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • People
  • Free

• Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Power
  • Band

• Rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Right
  • Rule
  • Felt

• It is only fair that prisoners work to pay for at least a part of their food. A regular and reasonable occupation is necessary for their health as well as for maintaining peace and order and for banishing idleness, more dangerous in these sanctuaries.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Work
  • Food
  • Peace

• External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

  

  Jules Verne
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Produce

• The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • School
  • Guy
  • Singing

• Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Parents
  • Die
  • Trust

• It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Prisons
  • Prisoners
  • Reformation