Oscar Wilde Quotes

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde

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• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Happy
  • City

• The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Rid

• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Way
  • Poor

• When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Random

• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Space
  • Comfort

• We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Better
  • Selfish

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Think
  • Look
  • Down

• The poet is the priest of the invisible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Poet
  • Invisible
  • Priest

• When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Years
  • Acting
  • Fame

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Working

• I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Actress

• If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Desire

• Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Hit

• 'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'

  

  Banksy

• We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Communication

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Live
  • Control
  • Die

• We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

  

  David J. Farber
  • Live
  • Die
  • Enough

• 'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.

  

  Taliesin
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Friendship

• And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Lives
  • Knew