Oscar Wilde Quotes
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.Oscar Wilde
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra -
I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
Mandy Moore -
I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
Olivier Theyskens -
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
S. J. Rozan -
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
Nathalie Sarraute -
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz -
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland -
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
Patrick Wilson
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
Abbey Clancy -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Yahoo Serious -
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
Zadie Smith
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A lot happens in 20 years.
Pat Morita -
At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
Gail Simmons -
I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.
Waris Ahluwalia -
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
Oscar Wilde