Oscar Wilde Quotes

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Oscar Wilde

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• If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Society
  • Cinema

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Just
  • Agenda

• As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Religion
  • Feel

• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Business

• I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Game
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Funny

• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Things
  • Speech
  • Precious

• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Child

• Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Nice
  • Couple

• Turning 18 is a big deal.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Deal
  • Big
  • Big Deal

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.

  

  Edward Carey
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

  

  John Cusack
  • Time
  • Real

• The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades, bumps, and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested

  

  Katie Couric
  • Character
  • Road

• I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • World
  • Way
  • Technology

• It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Seems