Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

P. J. O'Rourke

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

P. J. O'Rourke

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

P. J. O'Rourke

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

P. J. O'Rourke

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

Pablo Picasso

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Paul Stanley

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Paul Merton

I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

Patricia Schroeder

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

Oscar Wilde

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

Oscar Wilde

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Oscar Wilde

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Oscar Wilde

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Oscar Wilde

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Oscar Wilde

The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Oscar Wilde

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Oscar Wilde

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Oscar Wilde

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Oscar Wilde

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

Oscar Wilde

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Oscar Wilde

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

Oscar Wilde

Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

Oscar Wilde

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Oscar Wilde

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Oscar Wilde

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Oscar Wilde

Genius is born-not paid