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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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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Even though there's only two guys in the band, when both of us are on the same page about something, you can't really change our minds.
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
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I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.
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On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.
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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?
