Oscar Wilde Quotes
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
Oscar Wilde
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
Sam Heughan
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Victoria Woodhull
In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
Zac Brown Band
I never pursued being 'famous.'
Francesca Annis
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
Karen Bass
The notion of the free play of the mind upon all subjects being a pleasure in itself, being an object of desire, being an essential provider of elements without which a nation's spirit, whatever compensations it may have for them, must, in the long run, die of inanition, hardly enters into an Englishman's thoughts.
Matthew Arnold
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.
Sarah Bernhardt
Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
Philip Roth
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
Oscar Wilde