Oscar Wilde Quotes

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Oscar Wilde

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• Buttonhole
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• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Words

• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Success

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • You
  • Period

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Going
  • About
  • Worried

• I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Want

• It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Done
  • Change

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Networking

• I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Guy
  • Whatever
  • Jordan

• Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • Good
  • Communicate

• I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Important
  • Health

• What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

  

  John Huston
  • Inspiration
  • Idea
  • Wait

• A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Link