Oscar Wilde Quotes

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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• You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Emotions
  • Work Hard

• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Same

• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Looking

• I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Now And Then

• I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Art
  • Training
  • Gift

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Experience
  • Religion

• If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • May
  • Practice
  • Research

• Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Job
  • Running
  • Positive

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Cooperation

• I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hair

• In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Old
  • Answer
  • Affirmative

• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Live
  • Night

• Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Decide

• To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Performance
  • Harmony
  • Aim

• The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Story
  • Mankind
  • Revelations