Oscar Wilde Quotes

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Oscar Wilde

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• My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Wife

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• You can't control where your heart goes.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Heart
  • You
  • Control

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  

  Dan Blocker
  • Good
  • Say
  • Ride

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Bad
  • House
  • Morning

• As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Name
  • Witty

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • High
  • Action
  • Victory

• The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

  

  Paula Deen
  • Up
  • Sweet
  • Drinking

• Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Important
  • Question

• I don't contain a self-personality, that I might stand up and say, Do this for me. Kings might say that, Bring me jewels, and so on, but I don't say that. Because when I see the growth of a human being and I see that his love and affection are really growing, then I feel happy. That is what pleases me.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Growing

• Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.

  

  Nikki Sanderson
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Show

• In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Age
  • Ugly