Oscar Wilde Quotes
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
Magic Johnson -
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
Vincent Bugliosi -
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride -
Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
B. Wayne Hughes -
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard -
I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
Ian Watson
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
Laura Linney -
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba -
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
Usain Bolt -
We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
Oliver North -
I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
Hannah Simone -
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
Iman -
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain -
There are a thousand ways to play any role.
Val Kilmer -
I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
Harold Ramis -
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
Larry Page -
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
Victor Hugo -
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar Wilde