Oscar Wilde Quotes

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Oscar Wilde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Balancing is good to isolate the abs.

Jill Wagner

GoodBalancingIsolate

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Jerry Hunt

MusicYouImportantKindSpecial

Perhaps storytellers don't need to care as much about the future as executives and investors do. After all, isn't it possible that technology will enable storytellers to connect directly to their audience without the need for anyone to share the programming decisions or the profit in between? Don't bet on it.

John Landgraf

FutureTechnologyCareDecisions

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

Matt Groening

PeopleMeSorryFeelingAskThrough

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Truman Capote

GoodConversationMeetWhyTwo

I love the sound of a Tyson Fury fight.

Tony Bellew

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It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.

Liu Xiaobo

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I can be sarcastic.

Juan Pablo Galavis

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Jean Baudrillard

PossibleRealAlwaysGiveOnlyVery

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.

Jared Padalecki

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

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And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

Christo

SimpleDetailYouEarlyNowProject

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