Oscar Wilde Quotes

Your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Oscar Wilde

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• It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Done
  • Movie

• Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • You
  • Someone
  • Been

• I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Space
  • Here
  • Sold

• I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Women
  • Family
  • Nice

• And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Single

• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Life
  • Come

• There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Bad
  • Alcohol

• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Memory
  • Writer
  • Without

• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Song
  • Player
  • Guitar

• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Philosophy

• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Character
  • Movies
  • Young

• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Business
  • Simple

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Voice
  • Causes
  • Sings

• When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Opinions

• They don't take orders from Arafat. They think for themselves and act for themselves.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Orders
  • Arafat

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Effort
  • Duty
  • Cloud

• Your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pleasure
  • Living
  • Married