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Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde ... G.K. CHESTERTON It was a perfect match, and it was the race she had been talking about for years. And it was the rac...
MICHAEL EDELMAN
My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav... LANGSTON HUGHES John Belushi had that aura of someone who doesn't have a lot of time - that's why he was a little fr...
COREY SEYMOUR
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde. OSCAR WILDE It was someone from [Walt] Whitman ? I don't recall who.
DON STRASSER His demonstration that lightning was not supernatural had huge impact. Since lightning had long been...
DUDLEY HERSCHBACH John McIntyre was originally strangled. But the rope was too thick. So he was gagging. So Jimmy shot...
KEVIN WEEKS For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or...
PETER FINCH I guess we had talked about his background and questioned him about Medicare. He said he had no prob...
LAWRENCE STORY
There's certain things that had to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, ... So I'd have to be able t... EARL WILSON
All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang... GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone. MARIO CUOMO So many people who have been nominated for an Oscar have had bad luck afterwards.
GIG YOUNG And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his me...
BIBLE
He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING
In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had ... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.... ROBERT DALLEK
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman. WALT WHITMAN People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure ...
SHARRON ANGLE
Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world". HAROLD HOLZER There had been allegations that people in his lab may have donated eggs. I was told those were also ...
GERALD SCHATTEN While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack ...
LEONARD MALTIN
I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I thought that Jack [Nicholson, who presented the Oscar] had a little too much to drink and said the...
BOBBY MORESCO
There was no other way to say it. After being heartbroken for so long, I had made myself completely ... JENNIFER SALAIZ
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I... ADAM MCKAY At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizin...
DAVID HERBERT DONALD
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went. BEAU BRIDGES We weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn't...
BRITTANY CAVALLARO I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolin...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
MARY MACLANE He had problems remembering names. There was a lot of humor about that at his funeral.
HORACE WILLIAMS
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America an... FREDERIC RAPHAEL I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of ... JOHN HENCH
I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I nev... WILLIAM HURT It was fortunate to have that restart. My car was probably the best it had been, and his car was pro...
RYAN NEWMAN
In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer... EDMUND MORGAN
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde OSCAR WILDE
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended up... YVETTE CLARKE
What would Walt Whitman do? GARTH RISK HALLBERG They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regainin...
JERI RYAN The actor was perfect. He really had Truman down. I thought the entire movie was excellent. Truman h...
JANICE BIGGERS Tanner Stone was way too sure of himself. Too many women had been letting him have it all his own wa...
AMY ANDREWS Some of the bad things that had been said -- people can say what they want to say. I don't agree wit...
DICK WOODS I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correc...
MARY HART Patrick was on his way to see his father and so was I -- a bit too late. That's when he had the acci...
JOSEE MARTEL The reason that he got a sitting with Washington was that his father was Charles Wilson Peale, a ver...
FRED VOSS It was a phony call. He said he was thinking about shooting himself after he told us he had shot his...
MAJ. CARLOS RAINES It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Anton...
EDWARD P. JONES I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on...
KREAYSHAWN
I've often said, 'If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to p... JOHN MADDEN 'I Shot Lincoln' was the least controversial one he had.
JASON PERRY
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago. THOMAS HOOD
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago THOMAS HOOD
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo... JOHN IRVING Four years ago, some said the world had grown calm, and many assumed that the United States was invu...
DICK CHENEY He was a nice kid. I never had too many problems with him.
CHARLIE MACARTHUR
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. ISADORA DUNCAN Vicky said she had been thinking about some changes, maybe not being so involved in the retail side ...
MALAIKA GROVE
Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he ... SALLY FIELD He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart...
CRAIG REID When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically wo...
DANA BRUNETTI
She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkne... MARGARET MITCHELL I think Marty was really surprised. He had been complaining all day that nobody had called about his...
SHIRLEY JONES Oscar was raised to believe that if he stayed in his room reading about made up worlds it meant he d...
BENJAMIN WOOD
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false ... ANNA GODBERSEN
I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do th... GAIL COLLINS
He was too perfect, so I had to poke at it. Our relationship worked too well, so I had to see if I c... LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde. OSCAR WILDE
He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger. DEREK LANDY So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his or...
MICHAEL LEVENSON
I had an absolutely, extraordinarily unpleasant evening last night trying to get there, ... I had al... GWYNETH PALTROW His grandmother had died, and so we had been talking about her being in heaven, ... And I said to hi...
GRAINNE OWEN We stood there for a minute or two, with John swaying gently against my arm. 'I'm feeling better,' h...
GEORGE MARTIN
...but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going. J.R. WARD I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER
They had a profile of John Kerry on the news and they said his first wife was worth around $300 mill... JAY LENO I had a lot of problems like this when I was at Jaguar and today was his turn, it happens,
ANTONIO PIZZONIA
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roo... ROBERT DALLEK That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get t...
FRANK TASHLIN John had confidence. He might have, he really might have said it.
CLEM LABINE
I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films alway... JERRY HALL When he was minister of culture we had few problems with things like censorship, ... Now we have man...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI He sounded so happy. He was really enthused. I could hear it in his throat that he had some problems...
JUDY BARR
It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We use it and have had no problems and our customers have had no problems.
DENISE THOMAS
What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective real. THOMAS HARDY People and media in the early 1960s said it wouldn't work. The steering system was erratic, the bear...
BILL CLEMENS When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of m...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ
If you had to win a game, it's a toss-up between Steve Young, John Elway and Dan Marino, ... Steve h... FRANK GIFFORD
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic a... JOHN HENCH I think everyone was in agreement the John Bolduc had absolutely pitch perfect intonation and just b...
JACK KNOX
Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and o... PAUL THEROUX
But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had thre...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Shuffled footsteps caught her attention. "Hey," Owen said. She took in the sight of him, dressed in ...
LAURA KAYE She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan ...
MEG WOLITZER
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
When all candles be out, all cats be grey. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. 
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all... 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
I can never consent to being dictated to. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd... 
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ... 
My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches. 
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre... 
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. 
If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g... 
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec... 
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... 
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima... 
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. 
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. 
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. 
I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t... 
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit... 
Love is my religion - I could die for it. 
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. 
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. 