Oscar Wilde Quotes

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

Oscar Wilde

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• Sea
• Worlds
• Restless
• Tide

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
  • Driven

• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • Animal
  • Favorite

• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Attention
  • Perfect
  • Health

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Change

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Instinct
  • Guess

• Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, Madonna's and shameless nudes.. ..has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. I have transformed myself into the nullity of forms and pulled myself out of the circle of things, out of the circle-horizon in which the artist and forms of nature are locked.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Habit

• Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Stripes
  • Meatballs
  • Harold Ramis

• Concerning river runners: If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• 'Of course I deserve it,' I said, stroking Mojo. 'That’s the simplest thing about dealing with me, apparently. I always deserve the worst! The worst disloyalty, the worst betrayal, the worst abandonment! Lestat the scoundrel. Well, they have left this scoundrel entirely on his own.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Betrayal

• By remaining inaccessible, he became the epitome of those whom I have named and who stagger me. I was therefore chaste.

  

  Jean Genet

• Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Worlds