Oscar Wilde Quotes
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
Quotes to Explore
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
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I like to take long naps. I like long walks on the beach. The perfect day is back home, California, going to the beach with a couple of friends, laying out in the sunshine, get a nice bronze.
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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
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You see I've always been a fighter
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When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels really good because it kind of takes me back to when I was younger.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
