Oscar Wilde Quotes
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
Paris Hilton -
I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
Camilo Villegas -
No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
Nancy Pearcey -
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
Zach Galifianakis -
I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
Ian Somerhalder
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
Bat for Lashes -
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
Ira Glass -
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
Tammy Bruce -
What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
Ted Cruz -
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe -
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
Daley Thompson -
The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
Hank Sauer -
I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
Barry Bonds -
I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
Salma Hayek -
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
Zig Ziglar -
I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
Candace Bushnell
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
Tarja Halonen -
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
Carl Hart -
In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.
Grace Martine Tandon -
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.
John Patrick Shanley -
When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.
Catherine Webb -
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oscar Wilde