Oscar Wilde Quotes

When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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• I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Activity

• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Integrity

• Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Home
  • Help
  • Attention

• You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Important
  • You
  • Blessed

• I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Man
  • Star

• I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Want
  • Fans
  • Hear

• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Different
  • Development
  • Percent

• I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Good
  • College
  • Summer

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Think
  • Want
  • Free

• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Body

• Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Done
  • Outrageous

• I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Me
  • Never
  • Animal

• I won't join another band again.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Again
  • Join

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • True
  • My Life

• In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Opportunity
  • Apology

• All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

  

  Eglantyne Jebb
  • Children
  • War
  • Unjust

• I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Believe
  • Waiting
  • Enough

• When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Young
  • Worldwide