Oscar Wilde Quotes
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
Damon Galgut
If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
Sai Baba
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
Finn Jones
I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
Gary Johnson
I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
Gail Porter
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram
The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
Tamara Tunie
Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
Imran Amed
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion
One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
Cameron Dallas
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
Mackenzie Astin
I went into my own black-out period 1942-45 which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they’d get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn’t emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.
Lee Krasner
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
Elliott Abrams
He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.
Charles Dickens
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
Anna Deavere Smith
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
Geezer Butler
Black Sabbath
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar Wilde