Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

Oscar Wilde

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• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Brother
  • Year
  • Filmmaker

• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • God
  • Know
  • Me

• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Woman
  • First
  • Own

• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • Over

• People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Long
  • Conviction

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Easy
  • Gift

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Actor

• There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • You
  • Something
  • Obvious

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• There is no accountability in soft money. None.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Money
  • Accountability
  • Soft

• But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Important
  • Show
  • Leave

• In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Trying
  • Government
  • Constitution

• I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

  

  Edmund White
  • Read
  • Americans
  • England

• ..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Wanted
  • Lovers
  • Hesitation

• Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

  

  Epicurus
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher life satisfaction and less depression. In addition, they attend religious services more frequently and belong to more social organizations.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Health
  • Religious

• General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Rules
  • Application
  • Instances

• It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Acting
  • See