Oscar Wilde Quotes

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Oscar Wilde

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• I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • America
  • Wilderness

• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Tragedy
  • Rejection

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Painting
  • Environmental

• In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Idea
  • New

• Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Missing

• The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

  

  Leon Krier
  • City
  • Technology

• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Role

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Men
  • Free

• Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Good
  • Today
  • Positive

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended