Oscar Wilde Quotes

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Topics

ExperienceMistakesNameGiveSimply

You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it.

Joe Strummer

SleepMindSongYouWriteFollow

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Sophie Hannah

SeedsStartImpossibleWeirdBody

I have such a little face.

Robin Wright

FaceLittle

TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.

Roseanne Barr

FamilyWomenBestMomFeelKnow

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Mary Barra

ValueCustomerDefinitionProviding

Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be secure in who he is.

Molly Sims

ConfidenceDoorYouMannersKnow

I was going to go be an auto mechanic.

Milo Ventimiglia

MechanicGoGoingAuto

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Lois Lowry

GrowHormonesOverwhelmingFemale

I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'

Colin Hanks

MenThoughtSomeoneMadSawStuff

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Anton Chekhov

WorldPettyHatredFiresHostility

I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.

Pierce Brosnan

AgeYourselfBelieveYouFindYoung

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

Thomas Schlamme

PeopleBrainStoryBehaviorSeeing

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