Oscar Wilde Quotes

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.

Oscar Wilde

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• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro
  • America
  • Success
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• There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

  

  Iman
  • Want
  • Create
  • Follow

• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Knowing
  • Escape

• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Small
  • Voice
  • Distance

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Time
  • War
  • End

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Four

• We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.

  

  Xenophon
  • Rest
  • Design
  • King

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Woman

• When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Play
  • Games
  • Contract

• I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Know
  • Like
  • Meant

• 'Breaking Bad' has definitely opened many, many doors for me.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Definitely

• To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Small

• A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • May
  • Model
  • Theory

• When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Theatre
  • Films
  • Comedies

• I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

  

  William Blake
  • Foolish

• Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Error
  • Universities

• Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

  

  Alveda King
  • God
  • Love
  • Charity

• Wayne County chose Carnegie Learning because of its focus on teaching critical thinking and problem solving skills in real world scenarios. The State of West Virginia is committed to the 21st Century Skills Partnership to make certain our high school graduates have the skills they need to be successful in the global marketplace, and the implementation of Carnegie Learning's curricula strongly supports this initiative.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Teaching
  • Supports
  • Scenarios

• Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Manner
  • Quite
  • Butter