Oscar Wilde Quotes
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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The world needs some help.
Zac Brown Band -
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
Dan Brown -
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West -
Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Gabrielle Reece -
Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
Laura Dern
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
Ramez Naam -
I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
Gail Sheehy -
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
Calvin Klein -
I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
Taylor Schilling -
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
Dan Brown -
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
Manolo Blahnik -
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
Adam Peaty -
Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
Zach Woodlee -
It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
Saint Basil -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
Meg Wheatley -
You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
Eli Roth -
'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.
Colin Trevorrow -
I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.
Chrisette Michele Payne -
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
C. S. Lewis -
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
Oscar Wilde