Oscar Wilde Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
-
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
-
I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
-
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
-
This town was built on nepotism.
-
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
-
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
-
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
-
My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
-
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
-
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
-
You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
-
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
-
Well, I'm an independent person.
-
I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
-
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
-
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
-
2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
-
Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the key to good opportunity for their children.
-
A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.
-
This love is silent.
-
Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.
-
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
