Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.

Oscar Wilde

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• Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • High
  • Guy

• Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Strong
  • City
  • New York

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Always
  • Really
  • Pass

• There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Kids
  • Team

• I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Why
  • Movie

• I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Stop
  • Kind
  • Doing

• I'm definitely post-something.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Definitely

• Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

  

  Frederic Bastiat

• The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Great
  • Decision

• Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Men
  • Family
  • Grandpa

• I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better.

  

  David Chang
  • Home
  • Food

• You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Opportunity

• I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is; that's what I call an interview. I'm not someone who's like 'Right, you can't ask this, that, this, that, this, that.' It's got to be a real interview. I've literally got nothing to hide.

  

  Katie Price
  • Mind
  • Real

• Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

  

  David Cunliffe
  • Democracy

• The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Mind
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

  

  Steve Allen
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Fake

• All generalizations are false, including this one.

  

  Mark Twain
  • False
  • Generalizations

• It is good to be connected to family and friends, but when we cannot resist the urge to check updates or upload a photo, we are veering toward idolatry. Idols serve our needs according to our schedule. When we call, they answer. They give us a false sense of being in control. But over time, the relationship reverses. We end up attending to their needs, centering our lives on their priorities and agendas.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Control
  • Relationship
  • False

• And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

  

  Mike Lookinland
  • Become
  • Impression
  • Started

• That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Actresses
  • Wives
  • Commercials

• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Impression
  • False
  • Vulgar