Oscar Wilde Quotes

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Films
  • Fan
  • Filmmaking

• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Morning

• I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Family
  • Movie
  • You

• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Person
  • Island

• I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Group

• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • School
  • High
  • House

• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Fame

• I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Enjoy
  • I Can
  • Meat

• The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Planning
  • Modern
  • Continuity

• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Down
  • Step
  • Seriously

• Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Virtue
  • Followers
  • Admirer

• That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • School
  • High
  • Night

• For me getting paid for art is a class issue. I don't have the luxury not to care. It's great if your parents buy you a house and you can sell your 400-page book for $2. But for marginalized people it's not as cool to martyr yourself.

  

  Nicole J. Georges
  • People
  • Art
  • Paid

• In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Life
  • Forever

• So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Forever
  • President
  • Journalism