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
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
Zooey Deschanel
The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.
Walter Russell Bowie
Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
Antonio Machado
Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?
Charlotte Bronte
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
William Francis Buckley
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
