Oscar Wilde Quotes
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.
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Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.
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Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
