Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
Quotes to Explore
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
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When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.
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In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back end processes - the amount of time you have to wait when you sell a stock before cash hits your account - can take days.
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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
