Oscar Wilde Quotes

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

Oscar Wilde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleSeriousKnowLondonFullToo

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

Jim Leach

NaturePoliticsBetterMomentsHigh

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

Jessica Valenti

WomenWomanMotherhoodPlaceVirtue

I really used my own imagination a lot and made a number of suggestions during my tenure on 'Star Trek.'

Robert Picardo

ImaginationMy OwnOwnStarUsed

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

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MusicInfluenceOpinionsOthersOwn

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

Michael J. Saylor

ThinkMeanRightNaiveAlwaysHalf

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Jean Philippe Rameau

SingingSpeechCommonOriginVerse

I feel like doing my makeup before a race is part of my uniform. I always come out with a hair scarf or a headband, and I try to wear a new one for each race.

Tori Bowie

HairMakeupFeelDoingUniformNew

When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.

Tom Waits

VoiceWolfTryingYouFindAchieve

It's important for people to, instead of automatically assuming everything the opposite side says is incorrect, you have to at least listen and see why someone might feel a certain way.

Michelle Wolf

PeopleFeelSomeoneYouImportant

There just is not one person in my family who is not funny.

Michael Keaton

FamilyFunnyPersonJustWho

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

Deidre Hall

ChildrenWorldThinkBeenWouldTen

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