Oscar Wilde Quotes

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtUselessQuite

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

Jessica Brown Findlay

GreatPeopleInterestingFindPlay

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.

John Burroughs

CrownPoolDarkPlaceRocksSummer

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Robert Shapiro

ExperienceLawLawyerYoungWayGet

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

Alyson Hannigan

SchoolFameThingsThoseAcademy

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

Simon Conway Morris

SpaceAlienEvolutionDifficultThan

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

Rob Reiner

FamilyTimeLookingDoingAudience

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.

Ron Glass

FunnyOpportunitySometimesProject

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

Ron Silver

TimeSmartPeopleMeAttentionWho

Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.

Debbie Millman

IdentityAmericanPowerfulElegant

The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

OpportunityFightSucceedRepublican

I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust.

Brooke Shields

GoodTrustMeThinkingParentYou

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

Ashley Monroe

FamilyWhereWellBeenHeDistant

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