Oscar Wilde Quotes

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

Oscar Wilde

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• This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
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• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
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• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
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• I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

  

  Laura Linney
  • Love
  • Father
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• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
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• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
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• Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Everything

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Light

• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Attack
  • Worse

• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Acting
  • Place
  • Opera

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
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  • Me
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• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Day

• An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
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  • Miracle
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• Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Negative

• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Women
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• I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

  

  Dolph Lundgren

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Why can't it be a day where we take a moment and we stop and acknowledge the role that God has played in the formation of this country and its laws? What's so promotional about religion there?

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • God
  • Country
  • Why

• It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.

  

  Nadine Strossen
  • Country
  • School
  • Appreciation

• I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Permanent
  • Invented