Oscar Wilde Quotes
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very content.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
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Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.
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There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it.
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Why would anyone be interested in my little personal story if we can do without Homer's or Shakespeare's? Someone who truly loves literature is like a person of faith. The believer knows very well that there is nothing at all at the bureau of vital statistics about the Jesus that truly counts for him.
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Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
