Oscar Wilde Quotes

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

Oscar Wilde

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• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Help
  • Free
  • Education

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Best
  • Books
  • Worst

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Free
  • Source
  • Major

• I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Golf

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Think
  • Happen
  • Fights

• I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Never

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • People
  • Start
  • Situation

• I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shoes

• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Problem
  • Easy
  • Solution

• I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Step

• I respect people's feelings when they say they love me, but it is completely their choice of expression, and I am alien to it. People have a right to express, but that's it.

  

  Karan Patel
  • People
  • Respect
  • Alien

• He could only conjecture what style pheromones Zula was throwing off to her peers, but to him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Girl
  • Style
  • Clever

• When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as intended, and our bad mood is a sign showing we were not able to resolve the conflict.

  

  Jorge Bucay
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Angry

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Fact