Oscar Wilde Quotes

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

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• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Better
  • Peaceful

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • American
  • Day
  • Goal

• I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Done
  • Pride

• I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Real
  • Think
  • Man

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Boy

• 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Poetry
  • Moment
  • Try

• Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

  

  Ovid
  • Everything
  • Hour
  • Appointed

• Trends don't interest me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Trends

• I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Know
  • Plan
  • Got

• You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Together
  • Team
  • Win

• All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Bad
  • You
  • Need

• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

  

  Melanie Klein
  • Anxiety
  • Instinct
  • Activity

• It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

  

  William James

• I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Knows
  • Coffee
  • Sugar

• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Hope
  • Memory
  • Evidence

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary