Oscar Wilde Quotes

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Oscar Wilde

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• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Change

• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • End
  • Just Because

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Remember
  • Moment
  • Three

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • More
  • Really

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

  

  Edmund White
  • Want
  • Game
  • Challenge

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Temple

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Life is
  • Experiment
  • Judgement

• The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Attitude
  • Teach
  • Concerned

• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Impact

• If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.

  

  Elie Saab
  • Life

• If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Know
  • Punishment

• Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Music
  • Art