Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Oscar Wilde

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• Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Food

• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Film
  • Television

• My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Deep
  • Child
  • Curiosity

• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Smart
  • Intelligence
  • Dolphin

• I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Love
  • American
  • Christmas

• If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Path
  • New

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Football

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Entrepreneur

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Reality
  • Intelligence

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Plans

• The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.

  

  Jeffrey Klarik
  • Real
  • Character
  • Dark

• Josh is the guy in the band who's just so friendly and super, wanting to walk up to you and say, 'Hey, I'm Josh. I drum in this band, and I'm a big fan of you, and I really appreciate what you do.' Josh has all these great friends in the industry now.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • Literature

• I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Time

• Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Parents