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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Man Animal Reason Always Act Temper

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

Car Me New Car House New Move On

Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.

John Lee Hancock

Heart Details Worry Little Get

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Nature Writing Easy You Sometimes

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

Teen Grow Healthy Grow Up Up Sure

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

God Me Mystery You Powerful First

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

Walk Climb Go Everest Park Rather

Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as possible. As a creator, I think that's someone you'd rather work with, whether it's a movie or a sitcom; that kind of methodology is good for collaboration. People want to be with those kinds of performers.

Work Funny Good People Collaboration

The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.

Attitude Myself Experience Me My Own

Continuing to grow and continuing to improve is my main goal.

Grow Goal Improve Continuing Main

Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?'

Jose Antonio Vargas

Social Media Yourself Me Chill Legal

My training was with some old British communists who had organized unions in the '60s and '70s. And their philosophy was, if you can't drink a pint with a man, how are you gonna get him to go on strike and risk his life?

Life Man Training Philosophy You Go

With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.

Start Surprise Meaning You Project

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