Oscar Wilde Quotes

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Oscar Wilde

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• Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Stars

• People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Design
  • Building

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • November

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Home
  • Day
  • Cool

• Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Different
  • Age

• The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Up
  • Body
  • Confusion

• Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • High
  • Always
  • Expectations

• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Determination

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Listening
  • Murmuring

• Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • God
  • Help
  • Worry

• I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Been
  • Photographer
  • Amateur

• Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • People
  • World
  • Clever

• It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Daughter
  • Sweet
  • Parent

• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Respect
  • Yourself
  • Content

• The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Health

• Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

  

  Sallust
  • Pay
  • Gods
  • Gifts

• The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Argument
  • Built
  • Main Point

• (There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and...art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.

  

  Meredith Monk
  • People
  • Community
  • Humans

• When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also?

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Life
  • Men
  • Why

• If the stock goes down we want to buy more.

  

  Walter Schloss
  • Values
  • More
  • Investing

• I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Romance
  • Bed
  • Buried