Oscar Wilde Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.