Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.Oscar Wilde
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
Iris Apfel -
I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
Irvin Mayfield -
We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
Barbra Streisand -
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
Frances Perkins
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou -
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine -
You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
Zachary Knighton -
You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
Carlo Rubbia -
'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
R. Kelly
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Gary Becker -
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke -
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco -
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
Carl Sandburg -
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
Zendaya -
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
E. M. Forster
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
Octavio Paz -
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos -
The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
Catherine Keener -
After I was fortunate enough to achieve my dreams on the court, I have done my best to, in turn, help young people achieve theirs.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
Carlisle Floyd -
It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
Oscar Wilde