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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde quote: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the..."

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~ William Stafford
I hate things! I hate all things! I hate and hate every single tiniest thing. I hate the world? said Fuchsia aloud, raising herself on her elbows, her face to the sky. Mervyn Peake
The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger.- "The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism Mark Twain
Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that. Caroline Corr
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Mick Taylor quote: "What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up."
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers. Alexander McQueen
Francis Bacon quote: "Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. Francis Bacon
I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion. Stella McCartney
I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity. Billy Corgan
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. Ernest Hemingway
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William Shakespeare quote: "Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been..."
Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John. William Shakespeare
I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that- it just makes me sick. Harper Lee
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted. Albert Camus