Oscar Wilde Quotes
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
-
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
-
I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
-
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
-
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
-
Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
-
There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
-
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
-
Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
-
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
-
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
-
The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
-
I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
-
Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
-
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
-
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
-
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
-
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
-
Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy.
-
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
-
I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.
-
There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.
-
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
