Oscar Wilde Quotes
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
Sam Trammell -
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
Ori Gersht -
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes -
Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
Abby Wambach
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
Lajos Kossuth -
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Samantha Harvey -
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Kate Mosse -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
Samaire Armstrong -
TV's been good to me.
Vicki Lawrence
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
Lara Stone -
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
Naomi Klein -
I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
Damian Marley -
I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew -
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks Atkinson -
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
M. Scott Peck -
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Joanne Rowling -
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
Oscar Wilde