Oscar Wilde Quotes

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Oscar Wilde

• Want
• Perfect
• Pleasure
• Exquisite
• Unsatisfied

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• I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Love
  • Future
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• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Complete
  • Supreme

• I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Want
  • Actress
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• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
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  • Work
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• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
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  • Friends
  • High

• Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Man
  • Black
  • Traditions

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• I'm not a good guitar player.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Good
  • Player
  • Guitar

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Like

• I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Think
  • Sick
  • Then

• There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Together
  • Success

• It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stop

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Wrong
  • Documentary

• The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Lessons
  • Knees

• I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Things

• A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Want
  • Start
  • Studying

• I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

  

  Joan Didion
  • World
  • Book
  • Hate

• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Death
  • Silent
  • Silver

• A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Pleasure