Oscar Wilde Quotes

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Oscar Wilde

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• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Free

• If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Film
  • Head

• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • I Was Raised

• Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Comedy
  • Reason
  • Sick

• I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Kids
  • Simple
  • First

• My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can't help but tell myself I wish we would have achieved some sort of lasting victory. No one touched that subject before Trump, especially not in the Republican Party.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Help
  • Party
  • Wish

• If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Truth
  • Blessed

• The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

  

  Rita Ora

• Most things I go through I have to write about.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch

• More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Why
  • Friends
  • History

• I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • People
  • Music
  • Understanding

• It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Like
  • Feels
  • Right

• I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reading
  • Can Do
  • Complaints

• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levellers. They give to all, who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Book
  • Mean

• There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Wish
  • Feelings
  • Sorrow

• Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Speak
  • Atmosphere
  • Lips

• Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
  • Circumstances
  • Will

• A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Blow

• Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sorrow
  • Ground
  • Holy