Oscar Wilde Quotes
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
-
In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
-
I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
-
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
-
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
-
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.
-
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
-
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
-
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
-
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
-
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
-
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
-
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
-
I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
-
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
-
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
-
I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
-
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
-
And the jocund rebecks soundTo many a youth, and many a maid,Dancing in the checkered shade.And young and old come forth to playOn a sunshine holiday.
-
'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
-
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
-
Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.
-
The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.
-
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
