Oscar Wilde Quotes
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Truth is the best defense.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
