Oscar Wilde Quotes
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?
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Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
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Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
