Oscar Wilde Quotes
Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.Oscar Wilde
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
Jack Falahee -
I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
G. Willow Wilson -
People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
Dan Phillips -
Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
Randy Houser -
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall -
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet -
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo -
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
Yahoo Serious -
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel Alexander -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Baba Kalyani -
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco -
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
Abraham Verghese -
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
Zooey Deschanel -
I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
Kate Moss -
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
Harpo Marx
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While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.
Nancy Keenan -
The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.
Mary Jo White -
Love at first sight is different when you're 32 than when you're 22. In your early 20s, you fall in love after three weeks.
Eric Dane -
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles -
Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
Oscar Wilde